General Hood met with such disaster the following year in his attack

My command had all returned from the Franklin expedition to

Murfreesboro' and gone into camp on the Salem pike by the latter part

of March, from which time till June it took part in only the little

affairs of outposts occurring every now and then on my own front. In

the meanwhile General Rosecrans had been materially reinforced by the

return of sick and wounded men; his army had become well disciplined,

and was tolerably supplied; and he was repeatedly pressed by the

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