The world: historical and actual . and on the morning of the 21st of December heentered Savannah. It was during that period thatGeneral Thomas outgeneraled Hood completely inTennessee, and almost crushed his army. Hood as-sumed the offensive at Franklin November 30, andwas rejTiulsed. He planned another assault onThomas at Nash-ville, but before hecould put it into exe-cution he had beenattacked (December15) and in a battlewhich raged twodays, so crippled thathe had to flee to themountains of Ala-bama. That virtu-ally ended the warin the interior. The war was notprojected far into1865. It was
The world: historical and actual . and on the morning of the 21st of December heentered Savannah. It was during that period thatGeneral Thomas outgeneraled Hood completely inTennessee, and almost crushed his army. Hood as-sumed the offensive at Franklin November 30, andwas rejTiulsed. He planned another assault onThomas at Nash-ville, but before hecould put it into exe-cution he had beenattacked (December15) and in a battlewhich raged twodays, so crippled thathe had to flee to themountains of Ala-bama. That virtu-ally ended the warin the interior. The war was notprojected far into1865. It was obvi-ous that Richmondcould not hold outlong. The only ques-tion was whether tosurrender or take a change of base. The latter wasprevented by the cutting of Lees railway commu-nication bySheridanscavalry, andthe gradualclosing inupon the Southern ar-my of the Federal for-ces. Causesnot knownat the North,and disclos-ed in thenext chap-ter, conspired to render resistance impossible. Grant carried Petersburg by assault, and there be-. McLEANS HOUSE. WHERE LEE SURRENDERED.
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