confedates

Updated: May 24, 2025

The balance of loss from disease was also heavily against the Confedates, who as usual suffered from dearth of medical stores. The losses in present and prospective food supplies were even more in Sherman's favor; for his devastations had begun. Yet Jefferson Davis was bound that Hood should "fight"; and Hood was nothing loth.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray