AHC: Make Hood's Tennessee Campaign a 'Last Hurrah' for the CSA

Although Confederate success in Tennessee during the winter of 1864/65 would have certainly not won the war, as Lincoln's re-election was the final nail in the fledgling nation's coffin, such events could have had some interesting consequences.

Assume Hood, the tragic hero who attempted to be the 'Lee of the West', does trap Schofield's army at Spring Hill?
 
He could destroy Schofield at Spring Hill, follow it up by taking Nashville and then slip up into Kentucky as Grant feared he would; not only would this give the Confederacy one last great offensive into the North but it also would delay things around Richmond long enough to probably give Lee one last major series of fights lasting into the late spring/early Summer.
 
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