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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.
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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.	
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