Robert Turner - Sansom Family Cemetery - Gadsden, AL - Graves Mentioning a Cause of Death on Waymarking.com

County of stone: Etowah County
Location of grave: US 278, center median, Sansom Cemetery, Gadsden
erected: 1953 - 1964
Erected by: Emma Sansom High School

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Veterans Official Stone:

Confederate Tombstone:

"It was May 2, 1863 that Colonel A. B. Streight, U.S.A., raced through Gadsden after having burned the bridge across Back Creek with General Nathan B. Forrest, C.S.A., close behind. Emma Sansom was standing on a rail fence watching the bridge burn when General Forrest rode up and inquired if there were other crossings over the creek which was flooded at the time.

Forrest carried a large amount of artillery and frequently dismounted his troops and fought them as an infantry unit, necessicating heavy wagon equipment. Miss Emma Sansom recalled that she had seen cows fording the creek nearby. She mounted behind General Forrest and piloted him and his anxious army down a ravine and across the creek, enabling them to save Gasden and Rome, Georgia from destruction and to capture Streight's 2,000 men with only 800 Confederates." ~ The Forney District, United Daughters of the Confederacy

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