. A brief history of the United States . granary and arsenalof the Confederacy. At Atlanta, Rome, and the neighbor-ing towns were manufactories, foundries, and mills, where • WTien either party stopped for a day or two, it fortified its front with an abattiaof felled trees and a ditch with a head-log placed on the embankment. Thehead-log was a tree twelve or fifteeninches in diameter resting on smallcross-sticks, thus leaving a space offour or five inches between the logand the dirt, through which the guns:onld be pointed. + During this campaign, Shermanssupplies were brought up by a singlelin
. A brief history of the United States . granary and arsenalof the Confederacy. At Atlanta, Rome, and the neighbor-ing towns were manufactories, foundries, and mills, where • WTien either party stopped for a day or two, it fortified its front with an abattiaof felled trees and a ditch with a head-log placed on the embankment. Thehead-log was a tree twelve or fifteeninches in diameter resting on smallcross-sticks, thus leaving a space offour or five inches between the logand the dirt, through which the guns:onld be pointed. + During this campaign, Shermanssupplies were brought up by a singleline of railroad from Nashville, a dis-tance of three hundred miles, and ex-posed throughout to the attacks of theenemy. Yet so carefully was it gar-risoned and so rapidly were bridgesbailt and breaks repaired, that thedamages were often mended beforethe news of the accident had reachedcamp. Sherman said that the whistleof the locomotive was quite frequent-ly heard on the camp-ground before the echoes of the skirmish-fire had died AN IMPROMPTU FORTIFICATION. 258 EPOCH V. [1864. clothing, wagons, harnesses, powder, balls, and cannon werefurnished to all its armies. The South was henceforth cutoif from these supplies. Hoods Invasion of Tennessee.—Sherman now longedto sweep through the Atlantic States. But this was impossi-. ble as long as Hood, with an army of forty thousand, was infront, while the cavalry under Forrest was raiding along hisrailroad communications toward Chattanooga and unconcealed joy, therefore, Sherman learned that Hoodwas to invade Tennessee.* Believed of this anxiety, he atonce prepared his army for its celebrated March to the Sea. Battle of Nashville (December 15, 16).—Hood crossed theTennessee, and after severe fighting, driving Schofields armybefore him, shut up General Thomas within the fortifica-tions at Nashville. For two weeks little was done, f WhenThomas was fully ready, he suddenly sallied out on Hood,and in a terrible two-
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