ten-twelfths

Updated: June 8, 2025

If they had been lost Stanley would have been the scapegoat, but with the same skill with which that afternoon he had bluffed off ten-twelfths of Hood's army with a single division, Stanley that night saved the artillery and the trains.

John K. Shellenberger - The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee: read after the stated meeting held February 2d, 1907