Tuesday, July 15, 2014

General John Bell Hood to Lieutenant-General Richard Taylor, October 7, 1864


VAN WERT, October 7, 1864.
Lieutenant-General TAYLOR,
Commanding Department, Gainesville Junction:

Your dispatch of the 6th received. This army being in motion it is of vital importance that Forrest should move without delay and operate on the enemy's railroad. If he cannot break Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad he can occupy their forces there and prevent damage being repaired on the other road. He should lose no time in moving. I am very thankful to you for the assistance already afforded this army.

J. B. HOOD,
General.

SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 39, Part 2 (Serial No. 79), p. 802; John Bell Hood, Advance and Retreat, p. 260

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