River elsewhere. He marched further the west and crossed near Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Muscle Shoals prevented interference by the Federal gunboats. Notes References Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. . Hood, Stephen M. John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2013. . Jacobson, Eric A., and Richard A. Rupp. For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. O'More Publishing, 2007. . Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. . Sword, Wiley. The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. . First published with the title Embrace an Angry Wind in 1992 by HarperCollins. Thrasher, Christopher. Suffering in the Army of Tennessee: A Social History of the Confederate Army of the Heartland from the Battles for Atlanta to the Retreat from Nashville. University of Tennessee Press, 2021. National Park Service battle description Update to the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields – State of Alabama "Battle of Decatur", Encyclopedia of Alabama. Further reading Carpenter, Noel. A Slight Demonstration: Decatur, October 1864, Clumsy Beginning of Gen. John B. Hood's Tennessee Campaign. Austin, TX: Legacy Books and Letters, 2007. . External links Confederate Cemetery, Decatur, Alabama 1864 in Alabama Decatur 1864 Decatur Decatur 1864 Decatur 1864 Morgan County, Alabama Limestone County, Alabama Decatur, Alabama Huntsville-Decatur, AL Combined Statistical Area Decatur October 1864 events