I can only imagine after the war Gen. Hood waking up from a nightmare of him riding up the Franklin Columbia Pike until his horse can't go any further due to his brave men especially those of Gen. Cleburne's laying in all forms of mutation three and four deep littering the ground. All he can do is weep in the saddle as he actually did. How many nights did his fallen officers report for duty in his dreams? How many times did the bloody Texas brigade come out of the cornfield at in Maryland. How many times did he have shells and Minnie balls zip around him. How much suffering and PTSD did this man endure? 😢 I salute him for trying to live on and not putting a revolver to his head...

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I have always wondered, instead of moving into Tennessee, if Hood had traveled into Southern Alabama and Southern Mississippi picking up smaller commands and maybe parolees who wanted to get back into the fight. If he could have picked up another 10,000 men and down there to get back up to around 50,000 men. If attacks the ports and cities along the Mississippi River reopening the supply lines and perhaps drawing off Thomas from Tennessee to put his army down. If he would have got some of the commands from west of the Mississippi to join him, he could have caused quite a big ruckus and drew out the conflict a little longer. who knows if it would have made a difference or not.

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Remember you said when he got to Georgia he had to March to Macon and then Is to Milledgeville he didn't get on the train until Augusta

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I would say that the reason they're able to use the railway lines is Sherman's devastation was in the northern part of Georgia whereas the railways taken went through Central Alabama into Central Georgia and then maybe east northeast to the coast

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2 жыл бұрын

Here’s a map of the rail system in the confederacy, Hood would have traveled by rail down to Mobile, through Montgomery, to Columbus, partway to Macon before the rail system was unusable due to Sherman. Georgia was easy marching terrain and Hood would have had no difficulty marching from Columbus to Macon, to Milledgeville, then to Augusta and then North. Sherman destroyed the main lines around Atlanta, and the two main lines running East West through Georgia, and part of the line running from Milledgeville to Augusta. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_railroads_in_the_American_Civil_War?wprov=sfti1

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Hey thanks for posting that; The visual helps so much to make sense of the route they took.

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After the battle of Nashville, one aspect of Hood’s retreating “army” that wasn’t mentioned is that, except to the men who were furloughed, the remnants continued to be a draw on the already depleted and shrinking resources of the confederacy. This has to be seen as a positive from the Union point of view. Confederate soldiers still had to be fed, horses and mules had to have fodder, and ships and trains had to be diverted from other assignments to move the army towards North Carolina. From a Union point of view, these men were a continuing and costly burden to the confederacy. They were using resources which were not available to be deployed against Union forces. Respectfully, W.S

Why is there a military base named after him?

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2 жыл бұрын

HI, many of the bases built in the south in the early 1900's were named after Confederate generals by the US army in a conciliatory way to bolster Southerners to join the army.

You literally wonder how the army moved through Georgia on rails, right after telling everyone they marched from Columbus, to Macon, to Milledgeville. They marched through Georgia, you answered your own question.

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2 жыл бұрын

Yes, all of those cities were occupied by federal forces. How did they March across Georgia through occupied cities using road networks controlled by the federals?

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2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCShowHostedbyChris they were absolutely not occupied by federal forces… I’d expect you’d have a better understanding of the Civil War. First, Sherman never went to Columbus or Macon. Second, Sherman did not leave garrisons behind to occupy cities, he destroyed military infrastructure and moved on. By December, Sherman’s army was in Savannah getting ready to move towards Columbia, while Hood was still in TN. Sherman didn’t occupy the cities, he did try to negotiate a peace with the governor to dissolve the local militias and rejoin the union, but it was unsuccessful. They did occupy Savannah after he left, but only because of its proximity to the ocean and the Union naval superiority. Now look at a map of Georgia and follow along. The main railway ran east west from Savannah to Atlanta, through Milledgeville, this is the route Sherman followed and destroyed the railway. Because of this, Hood had to take a different route. He started in Columbus, marched to Macon, then Milledgeville. From Milledgeville, he could then head to Augusta and into SC, likely marching again. I remember in his Memoirs Sherman sent a detachment to destroy the rails near Augusta, but I don’t remember how successful it was. Sherman marched West to East destroying major rail lines. Hood couldn’t take rail, and marched, like you said yourself, south west to north east, not along rails, but hopping from one major city to another, as the cities provided shelter, and the populace was sympathetic to their cause to provide forage. From the destruction mentioned by Sherman in his book, I doubt that any of the rails he destroyed were repairs by the time hood arrived, which is reflected in the route he took, marching by city hopping across Ga.

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2 жыл бұрын

@@user-xd6jt3dx8p Hoods army or what what's left of it was in North Mississippi. So unless they went South all the way to Columbus then the only option was to go across and move up to Chattanooga because Atlanta was burned. I'm not sure what route they took

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2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCShowHostedbyChris also, Hood could have gotten to Columbus by Rail by a circuitous route. Sherman entered Ga from Chattanooga through Dalton in the North, the rail system in Southern Alabama was intact for Hood to get from Mobile to Columbus. Columbus to Macon probably had rail, but you said they marched which makes more sense.

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2 жыл бұрын

I thought they marched but I could be wrong. Sorry I should have phrased that in more of a question than a statement