plan had become more complex than the plot that was drafted by himself and president Davis, thus requiring more meticulous operational preparedness from hood. Lt. Gen hood strategic goal was to get to Nashville to aid general Robert lee’s army at Virginia, by tactically taking advantage of the current position of the union forces to engage them separately, before they could converge with Thomas at Nashville. Hood planned to march to Tuscumbia so as to wait for supplies and Forest cavalry to arrive, and then march forward to Columbia. With the union army marching to Nashville, precious time was been wastred at Tuscumbia. General hood had failed to take into account the logistics required to furnish his army with supplies; bad railways and
