On November 29, 1864, Union and Confederate forces skirmished at the small town of Spring Hill, Tennessee. Spring Hill is located on the border of Maury and Williamson Counties, about halfway between Columbia and Franklin. Confederate General John Bell Hood set up his forces to attempt to stop the Federals as they left Columbia, heading north. There were minor skirmishes along the Columbia Pike, and the Federals lined up west of the pike in order to protect the railroad. Casualties numbered only in the few hundred.
Eventually night fell and as the Confederates slept, the Federals picked up and retreated to north to Franklin, completely evacuating Spring Hill. Hood was so angry that he sent his troops to be all but slaughtered in the bloody Battle of Franklin the next day.
More about that battle in tomorrow's post.
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