Chapter Xiii. Grant Orders Thomas to Attack Hood or Relinquish

the Command--Thomas's Corps Commanders Support Him in Delay--Grant's Intentions in Sending Logan to Relieve Thomas--Change of Plan before the Battle of Nashville--The Fighting of December 15--Expectation that Hood would Retreat--Delay in Renewing the Attack on the 16th --Hopelessness of Hood's Position--Letters to Grant and Sherman-- Transferred to the East--Financial Burden of the War--Thomas's Attitude toward the War.