and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy
One contemporary account states that following the battle
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this "pyrrhic" victory prevented Forrest form being in Tennessee to cut the supply lines of Union General Sherman's army that captured and burned Atlanta on their "March to the Sea
Abe & Fido 5th Mass and children began fleeing theirby Matthew Algeo In early 1861, as he prepared to leave his home in Springfield, Illinois, to move into the White House, Abraham Lincoln faced many momentous tasks, but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons, Willie and Tad, that the familys beloved pet dog, Fido, would not be accompanying them to Washington. Lincoln was afraid the skittish dog couldnt endure the long rail journey, so he decided to leave the mutt behind with friends