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y on the national roads in Middle Tennessee; that Sherman would meet the fate of Napoleon in the retreat from Moscow; and, finally, addressing the army, he turned to a division of Tennessee troops, and exclaimed: Be of good cheer, for in a short while your faces will be turned homeward, and your feet pressing Tennessee soil. This imprudent disclosure of the rebel plans was published in the Southern newspapers, and Sherman was of course forewarned. The speech at Macon was made on the 23rd of September, and on the 27th, Sherman telegraphed it to Washington. Even on the 24th, however, Sherman had said: I have no doubt Hood has resolved to throw himself on our flanks to prevent our accumulating stores, etc. here, trusting to our not advancing into Georgia. He accordingly ordered a division at once to Rome, to protect the railroad. On the 25th, he said: Hood seems to be moving as it were to the Alabama line, leaving open to me the road to Macon, as also to Augusta. If I was sure t