Free Republic

Outside of Nashville TN. General George H. Thomas’s Army of the Cumberland delivers a devastating flank attack against Confederate General John B. Hood’s Army of Tennessee. Cheatham’s Corp on the left flank of Hood’s forces collapse in the onslaught. Within hours, Hood’s army is in full retreat. The AOT combat at Franklin and Nashville had reduced the Army’s strength to about 18,000 men. In January,1865, the remnants of the Army of Tennessee would be transferred East to South Carolina. There they would try to stop General Sherman’s Army advancing through the Carolinas.