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22 Series I Volume XLV-I Serial 93 - Franklin - Nashville Part I

Page 22 KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. Chapter LVII.

December 4, 1864.-Action at Bell's Mills, Tenn.

5-7, 1864.-Demonstrations against Murfreesborough, Tenn.

6, 1864.-Action at Bell's Mills, Tenn.

7, 1864.-Skirmish near Paint Rock Bridge, Ala.

13, 1864.-Attack on railroad train ner Murfreesborough, Tenn.

15, 1864.-Capture of railroad train ner Murfreesborough, Tenn.

15-16, 1864.-Battle of Nashville, Tenn.

17, 1864.-Action at Hollow Tree Gap, Tenn.

Action at Franklin, Tenn.

Action at West Harpeth River, Tenn.

18, 1864.-Skirmish at Spring Hill, Tenn.

19, 1864.-Skirmish at Rutherford's Creek, Tenn.

Skirmish at Curtis' Creek, Tenn.

20, 1864.-Skirmish at Columbia, Tenn.

22, 1864.-Skirmish at Duck River, Tenn.

23, 1864.-Skirmish at Warfield's, near Columbia, Tenn.

24, 1864.-Skirmish at Lynnville, Tenn.

Action at Richland Creek, Tenn.

25, 1864.-Skirmish at Richland Creek, Tenn.

Action at King's (or Anthony's) Hill, or Devil's Gap, Tenn.

26, 1864.-Action at Sugar Creek, Tenn.

27, 1864.-Skirmish at Decatur, Ala.

28, 1864.-Skirmish near Decatur, Ala.

29, 1864.-Skirmish near Hillsborough, Ala.

Skirmish at Pond Spring, Ala.

30, 1864.-Skirmish near Leighton, Ala.

31, 1864.-Affair at Paint Rock Bridge, Ala.

Skirmish at Russellville, Ala.

January 4, 1864.-Skirmish near Thorn Hill, Ala.

9, 1864.-Reconnaissance from Eastport to Iuka, Miss.

15-18, 1865.-The Twenty-third Army Corps embarkes at Clifon, Tenn., for the East.

19, 1865.-Skirmish at Corinth, Miss.

23, 1865.-General John B. Hood, C. S. Army, relinquishes command of the Army of Tennessee.

REPORTS, ETC.*


Numbers 1.- Major General George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Cumberland.


Numbers 2.-Abstract from returns of the U. S. Forces under command of Major General George H. Thomas for November 20, November 30, and December 10, 1864.


Numbers 3.-Abstract from returns of the District of Tennessee, commanded by Major General Lovel H. Rouseau, U. S. Army, for November 20, November 30, and December 10, 1864.


Numbers 4.-Abstract from return of the District of the Etowah, commanded by Major General James B. Steedman, U. S. Army, for December 10, 1864.


Numbers 5.-Itineraries of the U. S. Forces under the command of Major General George H. Thomas, U. S. Army.


Numbers 6.-Organization of the U. S. Forces, commanded by Major General George H. Thomas, at the battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16, 1864.


Numbers 7.-Return of casualties in the U. S. Forces, under Major General George H. Thomas at the battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16, 1864.

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*For General Grant's reference to these operations, see Vol. XXXVIII, Part I, pp. 29-31. For reports of naval co-operating forces, see Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, December 4, 1865.

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