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roops in his department somewhere, but what had been accomplished I was not informed.
About A. J. Smith I was in a like state of uncertainty.
Only one thing was clear, and that was that I must hol9th came a despatch from Thomas, dated 8 P. M. of the day before, conveying the information that Smith had not arrived, and saying nothing about any other reinforcements, but expressing the wish that the Duck River position be held until Smith arrived; and another despatch designating Franklin, behind the Harpeth River, as the place to which I would have to retire if it became necessary to fall cember 2, with several thousand fewer men than he finally had there, a large part of his army—A. J. Smith's three divisions—not fully ready for battle, and with fewer effective cavalry; while Hood wo million rounds to Brentwood, thinking he might want me to hold Hood there until he could get A. J. Smith's troops in position and supplied with ammunition.
If I had needed any such warning, that gi
y in check, should he advance, long enough to enable General A. J. Smith's corps, then expected from Missouri, to reach Nashvssible, without risking a general engagement, until Maj.-Gen. A. J. Smith's command could arrive from Missouri, and Maj.-Gen.mas at Nashville, on my way to Johnsonville, he expected A. J. Smith to arrive from Missouri very soon, when he intended to cesides his statement about the few alterations: Finding General Smith had not taken as much distance to the right as I expecterve to which it had been assigned over to the right of General Smith . . .—leaving it necessarily to be inferred that the poird Corps moved over from that position to the right of General Smith after General Thomas gave directions to that effect in ordered; otherwise it could not possibly have moved over to Smith's right before dark.
In fact, one of the divisions (Couch's) of the Twenty-third Corps advanced with Smith's corps, keeping within supporting distance, as stated in my report, so that
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Brentwood, Tenn., request for ammunition to be sent to, 187; proposal to send Smith to, 221, 223-225; S. proposes to stand at, 223-225; proposal to send Steedman to, 225; S.'s arri position at, 217; Hood captures road between Spring Hill and, 217, 218; proposed movement of A. J. Smith to, 220, 221, 223; Thomas's desire to hold, 221, 223; delays of telegraphic communication wit236 et seq., 243, 249, 260, 261, 271, 294-296; Thomas's attitude at, explained to Grant, 198; A. J. Smith's delay in reaching, 212, 213, 217, 218, 223, 301, 325; Thomas unprepared for action at, 220 et seq.; arrival of A. J. Smith at, 220, 221, 254; Wilson ordered to fall back to, 224; delays of telegraphic communication with Franklin, 224; general feeling concerning immediate action against Hoo, 281, 282; his military duty to provide for his army, 176; advantages of delay to, 185, 186; A. J. Smith ordered to reinforce, and his delays in reaching Nashville, 185, 187, 190-194, 196, 211-213;