Refusing to give up, Confederate General John Bell Hood today pushes his exhausted troops to the outskirts of Union-occupied Nashville. With the Confederacy in tatters, Hood is staking the future of the South on his impending assault of the Tennessee city. Georgia is helpless to stop Sherman, while Union forces are close to Richmond. If…
In Palmetto, Georgia this day, Confederate President Jefferson Davis meets with generals John Bell Hood and William Hardee. Hood, commander of the defeated Army of the Tennessee, blames subordinate general Hardee, who had commanded one of three corps under Hood, for the loss of Atlanta to Sherman. Hardee disagrees, and asks to be removed from…
Today in the Shenandoah Valley Union forces rout Confederate troops in the Battle of Guard Hill (also known as the Battle of Crooked River). The Union victory proves to be the definitive turning point in Federals taking control of the Valley from the Confederates. Soon, Robert E. Lee‘s army, confined to the trenches around Petersburg…