The Army of Tennessee in retreat : from defeat at Nashville through "the sternest trials of the war" / O.C. Hood.
"Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee was in full retreat. Ferocious engagements broke out along the way as Hood's small rearguard, harried by Federal Cavalry brigades, fought a 10-day running battle over 100 miles of impoverished countryside duri...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | ix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Contents:
- Friday, December 16, 1864: the Confederate Army in full retreat
- Saturday, December 17, 1864: battles and skirmishes in Williamson County, Tennessee, including confrontations along the Franklin/Columbia pike and four battles in one day
- Sunday, December 18, 1864: the arrival of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Monday, December 19, 1964: Columbia, Tennessee
- Tuesday, December 20, 1864: Hood quits Tennessee, heading south
- Wednesday, December 21, 1864: alignment of three federal infantry corps attempted, Washington vs. Thomas
- Thursday, December 22, 1864: racing through Columbia
- Friday, December 23, 1864: Alabama within sight
- Saturday, December 24, 1864: Richland Creek
- Sunday, December 25, 1864: Anthony's Hill (King's Hill, or Devil's Gap, Tennessee)
- Monday, December 26, 1864: Sugar Creek
- Tuesday, December 27, 1864: Tuscumbia
- Wednesday, December 28, 1864: the final chapter; Hood crosses the Deep River
- Appendix I. Casualties from the 1864 Tennessee campaign retreat, December 17/26, 1864
- Appendix II. Confederate rear guard ; Federal advance order of battle
- Appendix III. Battle flags captured on the retreat
- Appendix IV. Biographical sketches
- Appendix V. Medal of honor recipients
- Appendix VI. Voices from the past.