If DAY, DICIMSER 11, 1904,
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, ORKGON.
If
General Hood at Spring Hill
A rORTlETH ANNIVERSARY WAR STORY
Netsaihef 29, 1144
(Copxiiaht, 1WM, by O. L. Kilmer.
ifM'HINQ HILL doesn't figure In
the llit of decisive actions of
tn civil war, but It would If rt
ulU were Uktn Into account lo
ijace of desperate figlitlug and heavy
I There wort not many thoughtful pao-
plt In tut Confederate states In tha
lutuinn of im who did not believe
tlielr "Jig waa up" when Atlanta sue-
eumbod, following Vlckiburg and
Chattanooga In tba went, and Grant
planted tba victorious army of Get
tysburg on tba aouth of James river
ind stayed there, with Mcuinond all
)mt In bla grasp. Yet there were aotue
liold spirits who bold that tba god of
jettles might at to It that tba weaker
aide ahould have one mora chance,
with fair play and no favor, and one
of those waa General J. U. Hood, that
dashing, daring Texan who saucily
made faces around the corner at Buer
man after the hitter bad buitled blra
out of Atlanta by giving him the toe
v. . v wvi, mm ni,i .
After two weeki of a game of "foi mi. Wilson warned Bcboneia to
and geese" Hood found hlmnelf In the. abandon Columbia and, strangely
corps, tinder UciMTal J, M. Scbofleld,
10,000 strong, which be detached from
his main army before starting for tba
aea.
In point of fact, Hood went around
the Federal army, supposed to be
guarding tba southern border of Ten
ttessea, and once serosa tba rlvur made
for Columbia, on Ihick river, the dl
rect route to Nashville. The ever alert
Forrest preceded blm snd waa on
the point of seising the crossings of
the river when the advance of the Fed
oral army under RcboOnld, falling back
by forced marches upon Nashville,
came up to dispute the way. Bcuofleld
bold and fortified Columbia.
Meanwhile Generui J. II. Wilson,
cavalryman under Bberldan In Virginia,
bad reached Tennessee to lead Thomas'
cavalry. When he reached the front
long Dock river be found bla troopers
coping with Forrest, who waa bent on
crossing above Colombia, east, to salsa
roads leading to Spring mil, In gcbo
field's rear, so as to cut blm off from
If preaem of a large body of Sherman's
troops In the mountains of northwest-
Georgia and determined to offer
little, but when he canvassed bis own
ssoldlera be found that tlx spirit of
flighting bad vanished. Repeated dia
meter and retreat bad filled the hearts
of bis battle scarred veterans with
the prevailing hopelessness. In this
crisis nothing would fit so well as the
motto, "Re bold, be bold, snd ever
more be hold!" snd of boldness Hood
bad an apparently exhsustlrss supply,
He resolved to give Sherman the slip
once more and march rapidly to Nash
vllle, Louisville and Cincinnati, strlks
terror to the north, win the smiles of
France, who waited a good excuse for
aiding tbe Confederacy, and bring up
at last on Grant's rear In northern Vlr
glnla after crossing Ohio and tba Blue
Itldge. Waa ever tbe dream of dar
ing military adventurer wilder than
"oo tax a roesassio or that rait
that? But what waa to hinder? Sher
man, distance and the scattered Fed
oral troop to be met with on tbe way?
'As for tbe Inst two obstacles, Hood's
soldiers were equal to tho march, and
equal also, ho believed, to any Impro
vised force that could be raked op to
Impede blm In all the west. Sherman
himself, be believed, would turn and
go back south, and that Is Just what he
did do.
Hood marched westward across Ala'
bama 150 miles, victualing and equip
ping bla army en route for tbelr won'
derful venture Into hostile territory,
By the middle of November be waa
crossing the Tennessee at Florence,
Ala. Ilia numbers, Including tbe cav
alry that would Join blm; were about
40,000. Sherman believed that bis Ilea
tenant General Thomas, with a corps
of about 12,000 men under General D,
M. Stanley, and an Indefinite force of
mounted and dismounted cavalry,
could hold the line of the Tennessee
river and keep Hood south of It He
afterward added tbe Twenty-third
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enough, drew bock bis own force by a
route farther east through Hurt's Cot-
era and Mount Cartuel, leaving the
road open to Forrest to dash on to
Spring Hill.
But Hcbofleld, for all, bad the Inside
track to the key point and, acting on
Wilson's wanting, had sent Genoral
Stanley with all speed back from Co
lumbia toward Spring Hill. It was
the Sitti of November, the day of all
others In 1H64 when, If luck counts
at uli In war, the Confederacy bad a
last chance. At noon that day Stan
ley's men double quk-ked Into Spring
Hill and soon began to fight with For
rest's troopers for the mastery. For
rest was beaten, and Stanley held tbe
road open. -
Yet Forrest was not Hood's best card
In this game. At the bead of bla lead
ing division, a crack body of men un
der the Intrepid General Cleburne, be
bad crossed Duck river at Huey'a and
at noon of that day waa murchlng bold
ly northwestward to tba plka between
Columbia and Spring Hill and between
Stanley's Isolated division and Bcbo
field's main force at Columbia. Mora
over, he bad left the corps of General
S. D. Lee south of Duck river and In
front of Columbia to attack Scbofleld
and push blm. along tba pike Into the
trap prepared for blm at Spring H11L
At that moment there was nothing to
stsy tbe march of Hood's 40,000 Con-,
federates oo Nashville, Louisville and
tbe north except Stanley's band of
4,000 meu at Spring Hill and a mob
of unorganized recruits and convales
cents at Nashville with Thomas.
The hope of the west lay with Scbo
fleld, and he was virtually surround
ed and cut off nt Columbia. Hood's
bope-thc forlorn chance of the south-
lay In placing a wall of bayonets across
tbe pike and shutting Scbofleld off at
Spring Hill, when the Federal army In
the west would be nt his mercy. Call
Ing Generals Cheatham and Cleburne
to hla side. Hood directed their eyea
upon the pike where Schofleld's wag'
on and their Infantry guards were
moving from Columbia back to Spring
HUI. Said be to Cheatham: "General,
do you aee the enemy there, retreating
rapidly to escape ua? Go with your
corps, take possession of that pike at
or near Spring Hill. Do this
at once."
Hla subordinates moved away to
obey this command and himself to or
der np another corps, and, this accom
plished, Schofleld's army would be lost
Forrest's cavalry held all of the cross
roads from the ptks north of Spring
mil, In s line east snd south, to Duck
river, bsvlng bowled Wilson's men off
to the northeast out of reach. From 8
o'clock until dark tbera were constant
skirmishing and some heavy fighting
near Spring Hill between Stanley's
men and those of Cbeatbam and For
rest, but Hood returned to the spot at
dusk, only to find that Cheatham bad
not put his line across the pike. Cle
burne's division that had been relied
on for that feat had blundered In tbe
first attempt and then come to a dead
standstill. Hood brought with htm the
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leading division of Stewart's corps and,
learning of Cleburne's failure, ordered
that body of troops to form on Cle
burne's Una so ss to carry It across ths
pike. But by this time Stanley bad
given tba Confederates a taste of gen
ulne fighting that stirred up tbelr cau
tlon
Tbelr assaults on the pike at Spring
Hill had been stubbornly repulsed, and
Stewart went about his work on tba
slow and sure plan of reconnolterlng.
In the end bis troops went into bivouac
along the pike and not across It
As the evening rolled on Schofleld's
wagons and men hurrying away from
Columbia marched along the pike un
der the ayes of tbe pickets of Cbeat
bam and Stewart and were fired npon,
but they sealously went their way.
Hood at length called upon Forrest to
do the work the Infantry bad failed
In, but when tbe redoubtable trooper
got bis men In lino they had no ommu
nltlon and would not advance.
A band of about 2,000 under General
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Tbe most reasonable explanation of wg GIVE EXPEDITED
Hood's conduct on the night of Nov. 20
Is "that he tired himself out physically
during the afternoon, and his usual
high courage oosed out with bis wan
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So alight a thing as dyspepsia lost a
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Friday 2 8:07 1.7 8:17 1.8
Saturday 3 3:10 8.0 4:18 0.8
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Monday S 6:04 3.3 6:00-1.0
Tuesday 6 5:58 2.5 6:48-1.4
Tuesday 6
Wednesday ... 7 6:40 8.7 7:30-1.4
Thursday 8 7:30 8.9 8:13-1.3
Friday 9.8:15 3.1 8:54-0.0
Saturday 10 0:00 3.3 9:32-0.4
SUNDAY ....11 9:45 3.4 10:00 0.8
Monday 1210:34 3.4 10:50 0.7
Tuesday 13 11:30 3.5 11:30 1.3
Wednesday ...14 12:32 3.4
Thursday 15 0:13 1.8 1:35 3.0
Friday 16 1:04 2.3 2:33 2.6
Saturday 17 2:00 2.6 3:30 1.8
SUNDAY .... 18 3:00 2.9 4:18 1.1
Monday 19 3:52 3.1 5:04 0.4
Tuesday 20 4:45 3.1 5:48-0.3
Wednesday ...21 5:37 3.1 6:28-0.8
Thursday 22 6:22 3.1 7:09-1.1
Friday 23 7:07 3.1 7:50-1.3
Saturday ......24 7:52 2.8 8:30-1.1
SUNDAY ....25 8:37 2.8 9:15-0.0
Monday 26 9:27 2.6 9:59-0.4
Tuesday 2710:24 2.5 10:45 X).8
Wednesday ...2811:19 2.3 11:36 0.9
Thursday .i.,. 29 ... 12:38 8.0
Friday 30 0:34 1.5 1:49 1.6
Satarday 31 1:37 8.1 8:57 1.0
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2 8:34 8.1 9:17 6.5
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410:19 9.111:19 7.0
511:04 9.2
6 0:11 7.1
611:50 9.3
7 1:00 7.3 12:33 9.8
8 1:46 7.3 1:15 9.0
9 2:30 7.2 1:55 8.7
10 3:12 7.2 8:37 8.8
11 3:53 7.1 3:17 7.5
12 4:36 7.0 4:02 7.0
13 5:20 7.0 4:53 6.2
14 8:08 7.0 5:53 5.7
15 7:00 7.1 7:06. 5.4
16 7:47 7.2 8:18 5.5
17 8:30 7.5 9:24 5.6
18 9:22 7.8 10:20 5.9
1910.08 8.2 11:14 6.3
20 10:50 8.4
21 11:35 8.9 0:00 6.7
22 0:45 7.1 12:18 8.9
23 1:29 7.3 1:00 9.0
24 2:10 7.6 1:40 8.9
25 2:52 7.7 2:27 8.6
26 8:37 7.8 3:15 8.1
27 4:22 7.9 4:10 7.5
28 5:12 7.9 5:15 6.9
29 6:07 8.1 6:28 6.8
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