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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cromwell , Lincoln and Virginia . (search)
Hood's Tennessee campaign.
An "intelligent officer," whose prominent position in the Confederate army gives him peculiar means of obtaining correct information, and who was personally cognizant of all the events of the recent campaign of General Hood, has afforded the Augusta Constitutionalist a very clear insight into the movement of our forces beyond the Tennessee river.
The statements of the gentleman are so wholly impartial, and so eminently satisfactory, that the Constitutionalist thinks the campaign was not so "ill-starred" and "fruitless" as has been generally imagined:
"From the moment General Hood entered the noble old 'Volunteer State,' he drove the Federal forces before him until, beleaguered within the strong defences of Nashville, they at last stood at bay.--At Columbia, Thomas evidently intended giving battle, for he planted his army in a fine position, behind formidable earthworks.
Our commander, who, though impetuous and dashing, is not by any means reckle
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cromwell , Lincoln and Virginia . (search)