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Title: Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 Buel, Clarence Clough, 1850-1933 Century Company
Subjects: Command of troops
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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to Stanley, assumed command by virtue of being a department commander.
The whole force gathered there was less than 18,000 men; while in front
were some 5000 cavalry, consisting of a brigade of about 1500, under General
Croxton, and a division of some 3500, under General Hatch, the lat-
ter being fortunately intercepted while on his way to join Sherman.
The Confederate army in three corps (S. D. Lee's, A. P. Stewart's, and B.
F. Cheatham's) began its northward march from Florence on the 19th of
November, in weather of great severity. It rained and snowed and hailed and
froze, and the roads were almost impassable. Forrest had come up, with about
six thousand cavalry, and led the advance with indomitable energy. Hatch
and Croxton made such resistance as they could; but on the 22d the head of
Hood's column was at Lawrenceburg, some 16 miles due west of Pulaski, Ten-
nessee and on a road running direct to Columbia, where the railroad and turn-

VOL. IV. 29

442 REPELLING HOOD'S INVASION OF TENNESSEE.
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MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.

pike to Nashville cross Duck River, and where there were less than 800 men to
guard the bridges. The situation at Pulaski, with an enemy nearly three times
as large fairly on the flank, was anything but cheering. Warned by the reports
from General Hatch, and by the orders of General Thomas, who, on the 20th,
had directed General Schofield to prepare to fall back to Columbia, the two
divisions of General J. D. Cox and General George D. Wagner (the latter
Newton's old division) were ordered to march to Lynnville—about half-way

REPELLING HOOD'S INVASION OF TENNESSEE. 443

to Columbia — on the 22d. On the 23d the other two divisions, under General
Stanley, were to follow with the wagon-trains. It was not a moment too soon.
On the morning of the 24th General Cox, who had pushed on to within nine
miles of Columbia, was roused by sounds of conflict away to the west. Taking
a cross-road, leading south of Columbia, he reached the Mount Pleasant pike
just in time to interpose his infantry between Forrest's cavalry and a hapless brigade, under command of General Capron, which was being handled most
unceremoniously.

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