Calling out orders to imaginary units, Confederate LtGen Nathan Bedford Forrest kept moving one section of artillery in circles, thus convincing Union Colonel Abel Streight to think he was surrounded. Colonel Streight surrendered at Lawrence, Alabama on 3 May 1863.
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Q: In one of his letters, whom did Gen. McClellan characterize as simply “a teller of low stories”?
A: Abraham Lincoln