He is now crossing the Coosa River below Rome, looking west.

Let me know if you can hold him with your forces now in Tennessee and the expected reenforeements, as, in that event, you know what I propose to do.
I will be at Kingston to-morrow.

I think Rome is strong enough to resist any attack, and the rivers are all high.

If he turns up by Summerville, I will get in behind him.
And on the same day to General Grant, at City Point: Hood is now crossing the Coosa, twelve miles below Rome, bound west.

If he passes over to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, had I not better execute the plan of my letter sent you by Colonel Porter, and leave General Thomas, with the troops now in Tennessee, to defend the State?
He will have an ample force when the reenforcements ordered reach Nashville.
I found General John E.