Identifier: narrativeofcivil00snyd (find matches)
Title: A narrative of the civil war . . . For schools and colleges
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Snyder, Ann E
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Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Barbee & Smith
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sending Forrest, with two divi-sions of cavalry and two brigades of infantry, towardMurfreesboro. Thomas pressed forward the work ofadding fortifications to a position already stronglyfortified, and waited for reenforcements until suchtime as he was sure his army greatly outnumberedHoods. Hood dreamed that it was possible to rallya considerable addition to his worn, decimated, andfreezing army from the country around him; he for-got that the Tennesseeans he expected to rally to himwere sleeping their last sleep in Virginia and on thebattlefields of the West. No young men were left tohear his bugle call. There were not enouo^h as^ed O OCT men at home to care for the women and children. After the battle of Franklin Hood had but twoways to success open to him. One, to press intoNashville with the rear of the Federal army; the oth-er, to retreat. He did neither, but held his ill-cladforces in the open field unprotected in the cold, untilThomas, with new recruits, chose to give battle with
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Map of the Battlefield of Nashville. 1864. BATTLE OF NASHVILLE, TENN. Vtl overwhelmino^ numbers. When Thomas moved out,on December 15, the investing army extended fromBrowns Creek on the right to the Cumberland river,six miles below Nashville, on the left. There waslittle more than a skirmish line on a good part of theground. From the Harding pike to the river belowNashville, more than two miles, there were less thanfifteen hundred cavalry. The attack was begun atthis point with seven thousand Federal cavalry. Thewhole Confederate line repulsed the attacking forceson the first day, except the then thin line of infantryon the right of and across the Harding pike. Whenthis part of the line gave way it left the cavalry onthe left without support. The next morning found Hoods line shortened sothat his left rested near the Hillsboro pike. The cav-alry had, by a detour, marching all night, reachedthis pike just at daybreak with their artillery andwagon train intact. Hoods line, on the morni

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