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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Nashville Davidson Tennessee United States View →

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Abraham Lincoln View → George Henry Thomas View → Jefferson Davis View → John Bell Hood View → John Schofield View → Joseph E. Johnston View → Joseph Wheeler View → Nathan Bedford Forrest View → P. G. T. Beauregard View → Ulysses S. Grant View → William J. Hardee View → William Tecumseh Sherman View → William W. Loring View →

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Georgia, State of (U.S.A.) View → Tennessee, State of (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Western Theater of the American Civil War View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View → Sherman's March to the Sea View → Atlanta Campaign View → Franklin–Nashville Campaign View →

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