CHAPTER XVII.

Return from Allatoona--Hood's Deportment--Cross the Coosa 285 River--Devastation around Rome--Rome Burned--Garrison of Resaca Refuses to Surrender--Capture of the Seventeenth Iowa Regiment at Tilton--Dalton Taken--Dug Gap--Dinner of Roasting Ears--Supper--Captured Officers are Jolly Good Fellows--Gadsden--Encampment at Mrs. Sansom's--Her Daughter a Guide for Gen. Forrest when He Captured Gen. Streight--Cross the Black Warrior River and Sand Mountains--Decatur--Some Fighting at Decatur--Gen. Beauregard with Hood--Beautiful Valley of the Tennessee made Desolate by War--Tuscumbia--Dreary March to Columbia, Rain and Snow--Stewart's and Cheatham's Corps Cross Duck River _en Route_ to Spring Hill--Hood Slept--Schofield Passed By--Pursue Schofield to Franklin--Battle of Franklin--Incidents--Remarkable Order for a Second Assault at Night--Losses in My Two Brigades--Exchange of Prisoners Stopped