. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . n ofthe South. Lee, assigned to the Mississippi Squadron,took command November 1. Hood with a largearmy was moving to attack Thomas before he couldconcentrate. Lee promptly stationed the vessels onthe Mississippi to prevent Kirby Smiths forces fromjoining Hoods. Sent two iron-clads to the Cumberland to supportThomas, and protect his communications, and followedin the hastily-prepared iron-clad Cincinnati; wasstopped, by low water on Harpeth Shoals, at Clarksville,where Thomas and Fitch had asked an iron-clad shouldbe stati
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . n ofthe South. Lee, assigned to the Mississippi Squadron,took command November 1. Hood with a largearmy was moving to attack Thomas before he couldconcentrate. Lee promptly stationed the vessels onthe Mississippi to prevent Kirby Smiths forces fromjoining Hoods. Sent two iron-clads to the Cumberland to supportThomas, and protect his communications, and followedin the hastily-prepared iron-clad Cincinnati; wasstopped, by low water on Harpeth Shoals, at Clarksville,where Thomas and Fitch had asked an iron-clad shouldbe stationed, to prevent Hood from crossing for theOhio, about which Giant was anxious. The river rosebarely enough to allow Fitch to move the gun-boats andassist the army to turn the enemys left in the battle ofthe 15th, but not enough to make Harpeth Shoals pass-able until three days later. Fitch desired to remain onthe Cumberland and retain an iron-clad. Lee hurriedup the Tennessee to cut off Hoods escape at Duck-River, or at Florence, at the foot of the shoals heretofore. considered the head of steamboat navigation, where Hoodhad crossed last fall. All visible means of crossing weredestroyed. The operations of the squadron forced Hoodto cross six miles up on Muscle Shoals, where theiron-clads could not reach the enemy. Hood says hecrossed Duck River on the 19th, proceeded on dif-ferent roads, and entertained but little concern inregard to being further harassed by the continued to march leisurely, and arrivedat Bainbridge on the 25th. His army mostly restoreditself to citizenship. The defeat of Hoods army bythe Army of the Cumberland, with the co-operationf the Mississippi Squadron, virtually ended the war,and left only ceremonial proceedings for the custom-house selvage of the Southern States and the Trans-Mississippi. General Lee was unable to hold or leavehis trenches, and General Sherman wrote that FortFisher would fall with his advance. Charleston, stronglyfort
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