Battle of Nashville

Hood (South), his army wrecked at Franklin, digs a thin line outside a fortress city he cannot take, and waits for Thomas (North) to come out.

An ice storm freezes Thomas (North) in place while Grant sends Logan (North) to relieve him, and the most decisive victory of the war is about to be won by a man already half-fired.

Steedman’s (North) feint pins Hood’s right while Wilson’s cavalry (North) and Smith’s (North) infantry wheel down onto Stewart’s (South) flank, overrunning five redoubts in sequence.

Steedman’s (North) U.S. Colored Troops assault the strongest works on the field, the 13th USCT taking the battle’s heaviest loss and winning even Holtzclaw’s (South) acknowledgment.

Shy’s Hill falls, Stewart’s (South) flank disintegrates, and the last Confederate field army in the West dissolves into rout, saved from total ruin only by Forrest’s (South) rearguard.