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"Never had there been this overwhelming victory during the Civil Conflict - indeed, never in American armed forces background." - Wiley Ford's comment on the Franklin-Nashville Advertising campaign As Sherman began his infamous march to the sea, Lincoln instructed Offer to redirect General George H. Thomas' initiatives back again to Tennessee to safeguard Union supply lines and stop the unpleasant mounted by Confederate standard John Bell Hood. With Sherman marching east toward the sea, he directed Thomas to attempt to prevent Hood around Nashville. On November 30, the Union military began digging in around Franklin, which afternoon Hood purchased a frontal assault on the dug in Union military. After repeated frontal assaults failed to create a distance in the Union lines, Schofield withdrew his men across the river on the night of November 30, efficiently escaping Hood's military. Meanwhile, Hood experienced inflicted practically 8,000 casualties after his army as the Union lost in regards to a quarter of that. Despite virtually wrecking his military, Hood marched his battered military to a posture outside Nashville, Tennessee, where he took up protective positions while awaiting reinforcements from Texas. Even as Offer sniped at him, Thomas kept back for practically two weeks, partly due to a bad ice surprise, and his delay nearly led to having Offer remove him from command line. When reinforcements didn't occur by December 15, Thomas finally devised a intricate two-pronged invasion that feinted at Hood's right flank while having overwhelming power on the kept flank. Through the two day fight, Thomas effectively destroyed Hood's command line, inflicting over 6,000 more Confederate casualties while getting rid of not even half that. Upon attaining his head office at Tupelo, Mississippi, General Hood requested to be relieved of command line somewhat than be removed in disgrace.
