. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tly begun his northward movement. Now, in his disastrousretreat, he was leaving behind him, as prisoners or deserters, a larger num-ber of men than General Thomas had been able to place at Pulaski to hinderhis advance — to say nothing of his terrific losses in killed at Franklin. Theloss to the Union army, in all its fighting,— from the Tennessee River toNashville and back again,— was less than six thousand killed, wounded, andmissing. At so small a cost, counting the chances of w
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tly begun his northward movement. Now, in his disastrousretreat, he was leaving behind him, as prisoners or deserters, a larger num-ber of men than General Thomas had been able to place at Pulaski to hinderhis advance — to say nothing of his terrific losses in killed at Franklin. Theloss to the Union army, in all its fighting,— from the Tennessee River toNashville and back again,— was less than six thousand killed, wounded, andmissing. At so small a cost, counting the chances of war, the whole North-west was saved from an invasion that, if Hood had succeeded, would havemore than neutralized all Shermans successes in Georgia and the Carolinas;saved by the steadfast labors, the untiring energy, the rapid combinations,the skillful evolutions, the heroic courage and the tremendous force of oneman, whose name will yet rank among the great captains of all time. THE UNION CAVALRY IN THE HOOD CAMPAIGN. BY JAMES HARRISON WILSON, MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. V., AND BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. IIDGE OVER THE CUMBERLAND AT NASHVILLE. Until after Sheri-dans victory ofthe Opequon, Sep-tember 19, 1864,I had led theThird Cavalry Di-vision. Toward theclose of October,1864, I reportedto Sherman atGaylesville, Ala-bama, at whichplace the latterhad suspended hisnorthward pursuit of Hood, and after a full and in-teresting conference I was announced, on October24th, as chief-of-eavalry, and placed in absolutecommand of all the mounted forces of the threearmies, only a small proportion of which were actu-ally with the colors for duty. This force was by thesame order detached entirely from the control of thearmy commanders and designated as the CavabyCorps of the Military Division of the Sherman, after issuing all the necessaryinstructions and unfolding his plans for the opera-tions of the army, and especially of this new corps,generously added : Do the
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