When Thomas began to draw together his forces to meet Hood at Nashville,
he ordered the garrison at Johnsonville, on the Tennessee, eighty miles
due west of Nashville, to leave that place and hasten north. It was the
garrison at this same Johnsonville that, a month earlier, had been
frightened into panic and flight when the bold Confederate raider,
Forrest, appeared on the west bank of the river and began a noisy
cannonade. New troops had been sent to the post. They appear well coated
and equipped. The day after the photograph was taken (November 23d) the
encampment in the picture was broken.
[Illustration: FORT NEGLEY, LOOKING TOWARD THE CONFEDERATE CENTER AND
LEFT, AS HOOD'S VETERANS THREATENED THE CITY