The Tennessee Campaign ofNovember and December 1864 was the Southern Confederacy's last significantoffensive operation of the Civil War. General John Bell Hood of the ConfederateArmy of Tennessee attempted to capture Nashville, the final realistic chance fora battlefield victory against the Northern juggernaut. Hood's former West Pointinstructor, Major General George Henry Thomas, led the Union force, fighting thosewho doubted him in his own army as well as Hood's Confederates. Through thebloody, horrific battles at Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville and a freezingretreat to the Tennessee River, Hood ultimately failed. Civil War historianJames R. Knight chronicles the Confederacy's last real hope at victory and itsbitter disappointment.
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