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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 179 35 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 85 3 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 65 9 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 49 1 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 47 3 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 46 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 45 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 42 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 39 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 39 23 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Hood's army. (search)
w the feint on Decatur was managed. It says: "We have at last struck the Tennessee river, and if present indications do not fail, will cross the river in a day or two at Florence, three miles from this place. "The army moved from Gadsden, to which place it came after the Dalton trip on the 22d instant, and crossing Sand mountain, reached Decatur on the night of the 26th instant. Our skirmish lines were drawn around this place, and the works invested by them only. Stewart's and Cheatham's corps occupied the different roads leading from the town and went into bivouac. Decatur was supposed to be garrisoned by two thousand five hundred or three thousand troops, in very strong works, of which I had good ocular proof, visiting the skirmish lines quite frequently. "It was not General Hood's intention to invest the place with the view of taking it; for it would have cost a heavy sacrifice of life, especially as the enemy was reinforcing, and had his gunboats in the river to