![]() ![]() On 15 December 1864, Thomas attacked, with 55,000 men to perhaps 28,000 for Hood. Sleet, snow, and ice made conditions difficult. Grant, near Petersburg, were very anxious for Thomas to get on with the business of smashing Hood but Thomas was not to be hurried. Both Abraham Lincoln, in Washington, and Ulysses S. Though he was now outnumbered two to one, Hood took a position outside Nashville and waited for something to turn up. After Schofield retired at his leisure to join Thomas at Nashville, Hood followed. When a Confederate army command error allowed Schofield to escape, Hood became enraged, and the next day recklessly sacrificed much of his army against Schofield's entrenchments at Franklin, Tennessee. Hood started well, nearly catching a Federal delaying force under John M. ![]() Thomas, who would have a very substantial force once he gathered the various Union garrisons in Tennessee. Hood in November 1864 took the Confederacy's chief western army into Tennessee in a quixotic campaign to reverse the situation. ![]() Nashville, Battle of (1864).After losing the Battle of Atlanta, John B. ![]()
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