. . e Lee, with two divisions, was left to hold the works atunbia, maintain a bold front, detain Sch 1< ng as pos- sible, and press the latters rear when he should let go andretreat. During those hours of intense anxiety and excitement whilewe were speeding northward from Columbia, Cheathams corps,leading Hoods main column, wa pressing with all haste to Spring Hill, the point des-ignated by the Confederatecommander at which thepike should be seized. Itwas a furious race, the re-sult of which wras fraughtwith consequences of thegra
. . e Lee, with two divisions, was left to hold the works atunbia, maintain a bold front, detain Sch 1< ng as pos- sible, and press the latters rear when he should let go andretreat. During those hours of intense anxiety and excitement whilewe were speeding northward from Columbia, Cheathams corps,leading Hoods main column, wa pressing with all haste to Spring Hill, the point des-ignated by the Confederatecommander at which thepike should be seized. Itwas a furious race, the re-sult of which wras fraughtwith consequences of thegravest import. General Hood believed,and not without reason,that the situation presentedto him the great opportun-ity of his life—to strikenblow which would be fatalto Schofields little urged upon his subor-dinate officers the utmostpromptness and energy incarrying out his he failed will be seenin the succeeding was only by the greatestgood fortune that the Fourth and Twenty-third 1 ed the imminent peril which they were
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