Sherman plans to march east to seize…
September 1864 CE
Sherman plans to march east to seize the city of Savannah, Georgia (the campaign that will be known as Sherman's March to the Sea) but he is concerned about his lines of communications back to Chattanooga.
One particular threat is the cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest, who had long bedeviled Union expeditions with lightning raids into their rear areas.
On September 29, Grant urges Sherman to dispose of Forrest and Sherman sends Thomas to Nashville, Tennessee, to organize all of the troops in the state.
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Abraham Lincoln
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George Henry Thomas
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Jefferson Davis
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John Bell Hood
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John Schofield
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Joseph E. Johnston
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Joseph Wheeler
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
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P. G. T. Beauregard
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Ulysses S. Grant
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William J. Hardee
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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William W. Loring
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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence)
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Western Theater of the American Civil War
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American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875
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Sherman's March to the Sea
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Atlanta Campaign
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Franklin–Nashville Campaign
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