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29 Hood attempts to trap Schofield at Spring Hill, Tenn., but Schofield escapes to Franklin. Ste^pf&rt?s corps crosses Duck River. U/ 30 Hood makes a heavy frontal attack on Schofield at Franklin but fails to cut off his retreat to Nashville; Baxter?s commander, General Adams, and four other Confederate Generals are killed. Col. Brown of the 20th Mississippi is wounded. December 1864 1 Col. Lowry takes command of Adams? brigade and Major Thomas B. Graham succeeds Brown as Commander of the Twentieth Mississippi. Z.O 7W 1 General Adams is buried in Pulaski, Tenn. 2 Hood takes up a defensive line south of Nashville. Loring?s division intrenches near the Hillsborough pike. 15 Thomas assaults Hood?s army in front of Nashville. Loring withdraws to the Granny White pike and successfully checks the Federal onslaught. 16 Hood suffers a crushing defeat at Nashville and retreats. Stewart withdraws to Franklin. 18 Stewart?s corps arrives at Columbia and covers passage of entire army crossing Duck River. 20 Stewart?s corps crosses Duck River. 22 Stewart?s corps camps six miles from Pulaski. 23 Stewart?s corps camps near Lexington, Alabama. 25 Stewart?s corps arrives at Bainbridge, Ala., early Christmas morning. VT fQ*'
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