Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Hood” in chapter 4, page 156 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3:
...ington, on the way. Here he saw the President and the Secretary of War, and expressed so forcibly his apprehensions as to the result of allowing Sherman to move south and leave Thomas to contend with Hood , that he actually induced the government to send a despatch to Grant, desiring him to reconsider
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