The march to the sea : Franklin and Nashville . e all that would be needed for the postsmaintained in East Tennessee. Thomas could thereforeconcentrate nearly everything to meet Hood, and when thelatter should be defeated and driven southward, the lines ofoperation would necessarily be rearranged. As soon as itseemed probable that Hood intended to make Florence andTuscumbia his base, Sherman wrote Thomas, You mustunite all your men into one army, and abandon all minorpoints if you expect to defeat Hood. The long delay of theConfederate general in making his advance from the Tennes-see gave the
The march to the sea : Franklin and Nashville . e all that would be needed for the postsmaintained in East Tennessee. Thomas could thereforeconcentrate nearly everything to meet Hood, and when thelatter should be defeated and driven southward, the lines ofoperation would necessarily be rearranged. As soon as itseemed probable that Hood intended to make Florence andTuscumbia his base, Sherman wrote Thomas, You mustunite all your men into one army, and abandon all minorpoints if you expect to defeat Hood. The long delay of theConfederate general in making his advance from the Tennes-see gave the needed time for preliminary arrangements;and when, on November 12th, parting messages were ex-changed between them, Thomas was able to say to Shermanthat he believed he should have men enough to ruin Hoodunless he gets out of the way very rapidly. Thomas wasempowered, in the absence of his superior, to exert all theauthority of Sherman himself in the Military Division of theMississippi, and the new campaign was begun. 20 THE MARCH TO THE CHAPTER II. THE MARCH THROUGH GEORGIA. At Rome, when parting with one of the officers he wassending back to Tennessee, Sherman said, If theres to beany hard fighting, you will have it to do. He perfectlyunderstood that there was no sufficient force in Georgia tothwart his plan or even to delay his march. Before leavingAtlanta he pointed out to one of his principal subordinatesthat a National army at Columbia, S. C, would end the wrar un-less it should be routed and destroyed. Deprived of the mate-rial support of all the States but North Carolina, it wouldbe impossible for the Confederate Government to feed itsarmy at Richmond, or to fill its exchequer. The experienceit had with the country west of the Mississippi proved thata region isolated from the rest of the Confederacy wouldnot furnish men or money, and could not furnish supplies;while anxiety for their families, who were within the Na-tional lines, tempted the soldiers from those S
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