Under The Old Flag Recollections Of Military Operations In The War For The Union The Spanish War The Boxer Rebellion Etc PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CONFRONTING HOOD AT NASHVILLE Hood hanging on for the winter--Uneasiness in "Washington--Injustice toward Thomas--Orders directing him to fight--Full correspondence--Situation at Nashville -- Thomas imperturbable -- Embargo of storm--Van Duzer to Eckert--Thaw begins--Army moves out--Defeats Hood--Thomas vindicated-- Cavalry turned enemy's flank and took him in rear-- Hood's retreat--Wilson's pursuit. The record now clearly shows, contrary to Grant's belief, that Hood was intent on hanging on for the winter where he was, capturing Murfreesboro, if possible, and that he had no present design of marching to the Ohio.1 This assurance was made doubly sure by the further important fact that there was a fleet of iron-clads and gun-boats on the Cumberland under command of Rear Admiral S. P. Lee, patrolling the river from its mouth to Carthage, above Nashville, in cooperation with my outlying cavalry forces.2 All were especially on the alert to prevent Hood's crossing to the north side of the Cumberland. Upon other and stronger grounds, however, such a move 10. E.' Serial No. 94, pp. 121, 143, 153, 666, 670. 'Ib., pp. 3, 4, 85, 97. ment was highly improbable, if not impossible. He was already far from his base at Florence. It was winter and the roads, whenever heavily used, were soon almost impassable. The territory between the Cumberland and the Ohio had been foraged more than once by both sides. Besides, Hood was without resources with which to repair and operate the railroads, and it was beyond the waning power of the Confederacy to supply them. To use them at all he must first wrest them from our possession, and this could not be done without the defeat of Thomas's entrenched army and the capture of Nashville. That army, concentrated in...