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South Backs Away From Decatur Fight
The final installment recounts the Oct 26 1864 siege of Decatur by Hood's Confederate Army and Granger's Union defense. Reinforcements arrive, batteries duel near the pontoon bridge, and Beauregard questions decamping as Hood orders withdrawal toward Muscle Shoals. The Union garrison swells to 5000 as the Southern force retreats west.
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Decatur
Dunnavant
Bob Dunnavant
John Bell Hood
Middle Tennessee
Ten Decatur
Chattanooga
Stones River
Ohio
Michigan
Granger
William Sherman
Atlanta
Somerville
Moulton Roads
Hood
Garth
S. D. Lee
B. F. Cheatham
McDaniel’s Mill
A. P. Stewart
P._G._T. Beauregard
Bull Run
Ft. Sumter
Charleston
B. C
North
Alabama
Beauregard
Tennessee River
Union
Lamb’s Ferry
Wheeler Dam
Tuscumbia
Muscle Shoals
Blue Coat
Levatord
Tennessee Valley