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As an Army, the Army of the Tennessee never sustained a single defeat during four years of war.
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gutenberg.orgGrenville Dodge: “As an Army, the Army of the Tennessee never sustained a single defeat during four years of war.”
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Dodge asserts the undefeated record of the Army of the Tennessee during the Civil War, emphasizing its military prowess.
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That Army held or commanded the entire battle-field, demonstrating the fact that the Army of the Tennessee alone was able and competent to meet and defeat Hood's entire Army.
They proved they might be wiped out but never made to run.
We had lost our best friend,--that superb soldier, our commander, General McPherson; his death counted so much more to us than victory that we spoke of our battle, our great success, with our loss uppermost in our minds.
Colonel Dodge having discovered the enemy in the timber to the right, opened the First Iowa Battery on them, causing considerable execution; two rebels on horseback were seen to fall, and the rest fled.
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