The fourteen dead and wounded troopers of the Battalion at Henry and Donelson would probably not agree with your "expert" assesment of their unit.As regards the breakout,it is perhaps far too easy to accept Colonel Forrest's report then to question what really happened.In war there are always several different recollections of an incident.There are,the commanding officer's report,and then there are the surviving letters and diaries of the soldiers.

MWT