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LIFE OF GENERAL GEORGE R. THOMAS. 338
had all his forces at Nashville, except Jackson's division of
cavalry and two brigades of infantry.
It is demonstrable from  other facts that Hood greatly
underestimated the strength of his army at Nashville.
According to the report of Colonel Parkhurst, provost-
marshal general of the Army of the Cumberland, Hood lost
during the Tennessee campaign, about fifteen thousand
men by capture and desertion. To this number should be
added for his total loss, the killed in battle and skirmish,
which at Franklin alone was seventeen hundred and fifty,
and the unreported desertions.  He had eighteen thousand
men, infantry and artillery, at Tupelo, Miss., Jan. ioth, 1865.
If to this number his cavalry is added, whose approximate
strength was nine thousand, a loss of nearly thirty thou-
sand is shown.  And yet he claimed that he lost only ten
thousand men in the campaign.*
Hood's return on November 6th, 1864, is as follows:
Effective total present,  .       ..             .  30,600
Total present,       .      .      ..      .     4.0,740
Aggregate present     ..... 44*719
The " effective total " included Jackson's division of cav-
alry, but did not embrace Forrest's corpsùBuford's and
Chalmers' divisionsùnor the infantry reenforcements which
joined his army at Florence later in the month.  These
added, his " aggregate present," comprised from fifty-five to
sixty thousand men, when he crossed the Tennessee River.
But General Hood made his 30,600 " effectives," as reported
November 6th, the basis of all his subsequent estimates, of
strength and losses, in the different stages of his campaign.
He asserted twice, in the book published after his death,
that his cavalry numbered 2306 men.t  But this was the
number of " effectives " reported for Jackson's division
alone.  The exact number of men embraced in the three
* " Advance and Retreat," page 335-
ò\  '' Advance  and   Retreat,"  pp.  ac)8,  310.

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had all his forces at Nashville, except Jackson's division of cavalry and two brigades of infantry.

It is demonstrable from other facts that Hood greatly underestimated the strength of his army at Nashville.

According to the report of Colonel Parkhurst, provost-marshal general of the Army of the Cumberland, Hood lost during the Tennessee campaign, about fifteen thousand men by capture and desertion. To this number should be added for his total loss, the killed in battle and skirmish, which at Franklin alone was seventeen hundred and fifty, and the unreported desertions. He had eighteen thousand men, infantry and artillery, at Tupelo, Miss., Jan. 10^th, l865. If to this number his cavalry is added, whose approximate strength was nine thousand, a loss of nearly thirty thousand is shown. And yet he claimed that he lost only ten thousand men in the campaign.*

Hood's return on November 6th, 1864, is as follows:

Effective total present,...........................30,600

Total present,.........................................40,740

Aggregate present,.................................44,719

The "effective total" included Jackson's division of cavalry, but did not embrace Forrest's corps - Buford's and Chalmers' divisions - nor the infantry reenforcements which joined his army at Florence later in the month. These added, his "aggregate present" comprised from fifty-five to sixty thousand men, when he crossed the Tennessee River. But General Hood made his 30,600 "effectives", as reported November 6^th, the basis of all his subsequent estimates of strength and losses, in the different stages of his campaign. He asserted twice, in the book published after his death, that his cavalry numbered 2306 men.** But this was the number of "effectives"  reported for Jackson's division alone. The exact number of men embraced in the three
 
 

* "Advance and Retreat," page 335.

** "Advance and Retreat," pp. 298, 310