...tituted the main body of the Confederate army--and thus, if possible, crush Sherman's right wing, as we drove it into the narrow space between the creek and the river. Major-General G. W. Smith's Georgia State troops were posted on the right of Cheatham, and it was impossible for Schofield or McPherson to assist Thomas without recrossing Peach Tree Creek in the vicinity of Decatur, and making on the ...