Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General Thomas” in chapter 14 of William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid:
...efore Nashville, closes his consideration of the subject with these more generous words:
Meantime, on the 15th and 16th of December, were fought in front of Nashville, the great battles in which General Thomas so nobly fulfilled his promise to ruin Hood, the details of which are fully given in his own official reports, long since published.
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