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Hood evacuates it, and thus creates a difficult situation for

Sherman.330

Hood assumes the offensive and strikes at Sherman’s com-munications ......... 331

He makes up his mind to invade Tennessee . . . 332

His dreams of glory, and his fatal delay at Tuscumbia . 333Sherman marches to the sea-coast, leaving Thomas to dispose

of Hood.334

Ought not Sherman to have left more men with Thomas ? . 335

Thomas’s forces, present and prospective . . . 336, 337

Hood crosses the Tennessee river at Florence, and marchesnorthward .......... 337

Schofield’s retreat through Spring Hill to Franklin . . 338

Hood loses an opportunity.339

Position of the Federal army at Franklin .... 340

Further retreat upon Nashville ordered by Thomas . . 341

Furious charge of the Confederates upon the Federal lines atFranklin ......... 341, 342

They are defeated with terrible slaughter . • * 343, 344Wilson defeats the Confederate cavalry .... 343

Schofield effects a junction with Thomas at Nashville . . 344

Hood follows and entrenches himself close by . • 344, 345

Why Thomas was not ready to attack Hood . . . 345, 346

Grant’s impatience.. 347

He sends Logan on a needless journey to Louisville , andgoing himself to Washington, is barely saved from com-mitting a gross act of injustice.. 348

Grant’s unsatisfactory account of this affair in his “ Memoirs ” 349Position of Thomas’s army at Nashville .... 350

Position of Hood’s army ....... 351

Hood’s imminent peril ....... 352

Splendid tactics of Thomas ...... 353, 354

Advance of the Federal right wing .... 354, 355

Outposts taken ; Hood’s left wing broken .... 355

Hood’s new position next day ; the salient at Shy Hill . 356