The Confederate strategy is working so far,…

October 1864 CE

The Confederate strategy is working so far, because Sherman is being forced to disperse his strength to maintain his lines of communications.

However, Sherman is not about to fall into Hood's trap completely.

He intends to provide Thomas with sufficient strength to cope with Forrest and Hood, while he completes plans to strike out for Savannah.

On September 29, Hood had begun his advance across the Chattahoochee River, heading to the northwest with forty thousand men to threaten the Western & Atlantic Railroad, Sherman's supply line.

On October 1, Hood's cavalry is intercepted by Union cavalry under Brigadier Generals Judson Kilpatrick and Kenner Garrard in a raid on the railroad near Marietta, but Sherman is still uncertain of Hood's location.

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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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