Battle of Sugar Creek

[johan_steele]

Originally Posted by Battalion

Depends on how it was handled...

If the Confeds could have crossed the Harpeth River instead of making the attack at Franklin then....

Hood merely would have thrown his army at the defenses around Nashville instead of Franklin.

Hood was no Lee and Thomas no "Lil Mac," Pope, Hooker etc. The only things Hood had going for him were the AoT (CS) & Forrest and Hood squandered both.

[larry_cockerham]

Shane, your conclusion parallels my own. That's scary.

[larry_cockerham]

Gents, we're mostly on the same page now, even my friend Ole. One tragic fact that Whitworth alluded to earlier was the fact that the Confederates had no supply line at all. Sitting ducks about to bite the bulldog in the butt at Franklin and Nashville. Bloody men fleeing for their lives except for the few regiments that were held out of the battle and sent to Forrest to prod Fortress Rosecrans and tear up the railroad between Murfreesboro and Nashville. Those were the infantry who fought the rear guard, my gg grandpa among them. To a soldier in the fog at Sugar Creek on the cold morning of Dec 26, it certainly would have appeared a battle. The still more tragic part of this story is difficult to unfold, namely the remaining four months or so of their service. These brave men skirmished across Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina before making one last gallant but futile stand against Sherman at Bentonville. At that juncture, it was far past time to go home.

[johan_steele]

As long as we agree that the CW was a tragedy that probably could have been avoided if a few dirtbag politicos had kept their mouths shut we're on the same page.

We just can't quite agree on which ones...

Larry is pretty much spot on.