Hood had withdrawn from Resaca, on a…

Hood had withdrawn from Resaca, on a six-day march to the west toward Gadsden, Alabama, reaching it on October 20.

He had hoped to engage Sherman in battle near LaFayette, Georgia, but his subordinate commanders had convinced him that their troops' morale was not ready to risk an attack.

He considers his campaign a success so far, having destroyed twenty-four miles of railroad, although this turns out to be a fleeting advantage to the South.

Sherman deploys as many as ten thousand men in reconstruction and by October 28 regular rail service resumes between Chattanooga and Atlanta.

Sherman pursues Hood only as far as Gaylesville, Alabama, over thirty miles short of Gadsden.