Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Hood” in chapter 17, page 343 of John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army:
...e departments to our rear, returned to their posts and prepared to decoy General Hood into their meshes.
If the purpose that prompted Sherman to send me back to Tennessee was to serve as a decoy to Hood , I must say that my part of the sport would have been more enjoyable if it had taken place earlier in the season, when
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