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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVI (search)
e from here to act with you on Savannah. Your movements, therefore, will be independent of mine, at least until the fall of Richmond takes place. I am afraid Thomas, with such lines of road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood going north. With Wilson turned loose with all your cavalry, you will find the rebels put much more on the defensive than heretofore. Sherman to Grant. October 11, 1864, 10 A. M. Hood moved his army from Palmetto Station across by Dallas and Cedartown, and is now on the Coosa River, south of Rome. He threw one corps on my road at Acworth, and I was forced to follow. I hold Atlanta with the Twentieth Corps, and have strong detachments along my line. These reduce my active force to a comparatively small army. We cannot remain now on the defensive. With 25,000 men, and the bold cavalry he has, he can constantly break my road. I would infinitely prefer to make a wreck of the road and of the country from Chattanooga to Atlanta, includi
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
, 397, 402, 403. See also reconstruction. Cartersville, Ga., Sherman at, 315 Carthage, Mo., Sigel retreats before superior force at, 38 Cassville Road, Mo., military operations on, 38 Caution, distinguished from cowardice, 141 Cedartown, Ga., Hood's movement via, 316 Central Pacific Railroad, the, a trip over, 430 Centreville, Tenn., proposal to obstruct roads at, 211 Chalmers, Brig.-Gen. James R., battle of Nashville, 264 Chambliss, John R., S.'s room-mate at West PoSherman's apprehensions of interference from, 313; anticipated movement on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, 315; crosses the Coosa, 315, 316; movement from Palmetto Station, 316; probability of his striking for Nashville, 316; movements at Dallas, Cedartown, and Acworth, 316; retreat down the Coosa, 316, 318; Thomas to watch, 317; position near Selma, 318; assembles Georgia militia, 319; Thomas to take offensive against, 319; 320, 325, 326; at Florence and Tuscumbia, 320; Thomas to hold in check,