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From General Hood's army.
A letter from Tuscumbia, Alabama, dated the 31st ultimo, shows how General Hood arranged for crossing the Tennessee river, and how the feint on Decatur was managed.
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"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