Posted on 01/07/2025 6:38:36 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
From Our Own Correspondent.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1864.
The Tennessee campaign is at an end. The last of HOOD's army crossed the Tennessee River, near Brown's Ferry, on the 29th ult., with eight pieces of artillery and about eighteen thousand men. He left Macon with 35,000 men, and was reinforced with FORREST'S cavalry and a portion of DICK TAYLOR'S corps, swelling his force to fully 40,000 men and 110 pieces of artillery. With this force he marched upon Nashville. After the battle of Nashville both armies floundered in mud for ten days. Great exertions were made by Gen. THOMAS to capture the whole rebel army, but the elements and the fleetness of HOOD's infantry, and the valor of FORREST's cavalry foiled them. From the 17th until the 29th WILSON and FORREST were continually skirmishing, the weight of the successes being in ou favor. The infantry, in the meantime, would crawl away a short distance every night, and the cavalry oppose us boldly during daylight. On the 27th, Gen. STEEDMAN was sent across the river at Decatur, but HOOD retired by the Florence and Lawrenceburgh roads to the north. Here the gunboats would have materially injured HOOD, but the latter suddenly went to the left, and succeeded during the night in crossing the river. It is believed that HOOD has buried and thrown into the river at least 30 pieces of artillery, as we have 68 pieces, and it is known that he got away with but two batteries. It is also known that he had 110 pieces in front of Franklin. HOOD abandoned a large number of wagons and ambulances, the horses being needed to assist in the movement of his pontoon bridge, RHODDY's cavalry brought up the rebel rear guard,
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The War in Tennessee: Hood’s Final and Disastrous Escape – 2
From Sherman’s Army: The Army Preparing for a Move – 2
Guerrillas on the Potomac: Guerrillas Becoming Troublesome – 2
From New-Orleans-Rebel Demonstrations Against Baton Rouge – 2
News from Washington – 2-3
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 3-4
Editorial: Retrenchment – The Duty of Congress – 4-5
The Pope and the Confederacy – 5
Editorial: The Spirit of the South – The New Manifestations – 5
Editorial: Crime and Criminals, Law and Justice in New-York – 5
You may talk about your Beauregard
Or sing of Bobby Lee,
But the gallant Hood of Texas
Played Hell in Tennessee
I’m trying to remember a battle that Hood won -
he lost:
Peachtree Creek
Ezra Church
Battle of Atlanta
Jonesville
Allatoona
Franklin
Nashville
He was no doubt brave guy, and after losing a leg at Chickamauga and wounded in the arm, he had to be strapped to his horse. But on top of being a hothead, he in love with a pretty Richmond lady and made some reckless decisions perhaps trying to prove his valor.
Sarah "Buck" Buchanan Preston?
That was my thought. Mary Chesnut has frequently written of her relationship with "H-O-O-D". It didn't occur to me that it might have influenced his combat decision-making.
That an embarrassing typo for the Times, to have the article dated Jan 3 1864. It’s probably a common error after the new year starts, but a proofreader should have caught it.
from "The Civil War" by Shelby Foote, to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas" as sung by soldiers of the Army of Tennessee
during the retreat from Nashville.
I imagine those artillery pieces were retrieved from the river at some point?
Huh. I try to proofread the excerpts I copy over to my posts, but I missed that one myself. Though normally I don’t correct errors unless they were made by the transcription bot.
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