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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 15: (search)
oga, including Atlanta, and to make for the sea coast. We cannot defend this long line of road. On the same day he sent the following dispatch to Grant, at City Point: It will be a physical impossibility to protect the roads now that Hood, Forrest, Wheeler, and the whole batch of devils are turned loose without home or ha somehow, I was sustained in the belief that in a very few days the tide would turn. Upon the same page I find the following telegram from General Grant: City Point, November 1st, 1864, 6 p. m. Major General Sherman. Do you not think it advisable, now Hood has gone so far north, to entirely ruin him before starting on y General Sherman replied, as follows: Sherman's Memoirs, vol. II, page 165. Rome, Georgia, November 2d, 1864. Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia. Your dispatch is received. If I could hope to overhaul Hood, I would turn against him with my whole force; then he would retreat to the southwest, dra