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e, horses, mules, and the implements of husbandry destroyed, were fugitives from their own homes without having committed a crime, forced into an exile without an end, and without an example in story. On the 21st of November General Hood began his march to Nashville; on the 29th crossed Duck river three miles above Columbia, and then, with Cheatham's and Stewart's corps and a division of Lee's corps, marched to Spring Hill. Cheatham was in front, and in his official report, dated December 11, 1864, General Hood stated that Major-General Cheatham was ordered at once to attack the enemy vigorously and get possession of this pike [the road to Franklin], and although these orders were frequently and earnestly repeated, he made but a feeble and partial attack, failing to reach the point indicated. Again, in his history of the campaign (Advance and Retreat, pp. 285,286) it is related: General Stewart was then ordered to proceed to the right of Cheatham and place his corps across the