HDQRS. MILITARY
DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field,
Cartersville, October 10, 1864 – 12 m.
General G. H. THOMAS,
Nashville:
It looks as though Hood is bound for Tuscumbia. He is now
crossing the Coosa below Rome, heading west. Let me know if you can hold him
with the force now in Tennessee and expected, as in that event you know what I
propose to do. I will be at Kingston to-morrow. I think Rome is strong enough
to resist any attack, and the rivers are all high. If he turns up by
Summerville, I will get in behind him.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General,
Commanding.
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. 191; John Bell Hood, Advance and
Retreat, p. 264
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