Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Battle of Nashville; Dec 15-16, 1864


Aftermath of the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee
... "In four months of campaigning, the Army of Tennessee had lost nearly 75% of its fighting force. Hood resigned his commission in January and his remaining men were sent to join Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina. The Union victory at Nashville effectively ended the war in Tennessee." ...

Photos    Spectators watch the battle


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The battle "After the battles for Chattanooga, Union troops pursued the Confederate forces to Atlanta, Georgia. After four unsuccessful attacks against the Union, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood abandoned Atlanta in September 1864 and retreated into Alabama. There Hood devised an ambitious plan to cut off Union supply lines coming south from Tennessee and starve the Union troops in Georgia into surrender. He planned to take Nashville, which had been occupied by the Federals since early 1862, and then move toward Louisville before joining Gen. Robert E. Lee in Virginia for the Confederacy’s grand assault on Washington, D.C." Full article

Below: union troops behind their entrenchments at Nashville await attack by Gen Hood's Confederate army


Confederate war song mentions General Hood in Tennessee (but gives him too much credit, I'd say)



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