More or less correct, but with one major caveat - if the survivors of Hood's army hadn't been carted off to the Atlantic Coast, Wilson would have had a much harder time gutting Alabama. Maybe he wouldn't have done it at all.
That simple fact pretty much disproves the whole "destroyed" idea. If Hood was destroyed, then how can the remains of his army matter even in the slightest? Yet they did.
That simple fact pretty much disproves the whole "destroyed" idea. If Hood was destroyed, then how can the remains of his army matter even in the slightest? Yet they did.
Nashville was the last major gasp of the Confederacy west of the Appalachians. Hood's army was broken, period. Thomas prepared carefully, had a logistical advantage, and neutralized his opponent. Atlanta broke the back of the Confederacy, Nashville just about slit its throat.
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