March to Nashville--Cold Weather--Partial Investment of the 302
City--Leave of Absence--Turn the Command Over to Brig. Gen. C.
W. Sears--Battle of Nashville--Hood Not Physically Able for the
Duties of a Commander in Want of All Supplies--Marshal
Saxe--Mulai Malek--Going to Nashville a Failure; Could Not Be
Otherwise--Leave for Columbus, Ga.--Marriage to Mary Fontaine
Abercrombie--Go to Meriwether County to Avoid Wilson's
Raid--Robbing in Columbus--Adventures of My Orderly--Yankees
Raid the Houses--Gen. A. Had No Pies--Gens. Lee and Johnston
Surrender--Terms Thereof--War with the Musket Ends