Capt. Harlock
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Joined: 9/15/2001 From: Los Angeles Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel ushakov has it right. Following Nashville, the pitiful remnant of the Army of Tennessee withdrew to Mississippi, where General Hood resigned. The Army of Tennessee (by name, with quite a few units detached or melting away, as ushakov noted) then moved east by rail. I think there were gaps in the rail line, specifically at Selma, Alabama, and where Sherman had marched through Georgia. But I think the route included Columbus, Macon and Augusta, GA. Joseph Johnson resumed command as the army moved into North Carolina for the final stages of the war, where it was joined by other fragments of units - I think including troops under D.H. Hill and perhaps William J. Hardee. That "army" surrendered at Bentonville. The actual surrender was near Durham Station, NC, a bit WNW of the capital of Raleigh -- but not too far from Bentonville, where the Confederate troops fought their last serious battle. By that time, Johnston's forces were called the "Army of the South". He had been made commander of Florida, Georgia, and both Carolinas, and so scraped together what troops he could from a wide area, including the remnants of the once-mighty Army of Tennessee. BTW, congratulations on saving the USS Pennsylvania!
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? --Victor Hugo
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