Return from Allatoona--Hood's Deportment--Cross the Coosa 285 River--Devastation around Rome--Rome Burned--Garrison of Resaca Refuses to Surrender--Capture of the Seventeenth Iowa Regiment at Tilton--Dalton Taken--Dug Gap--Dinner of Roasting Ears--Supper--Captured Officers are Jolly Good Fellows--Gadsden--Encampment at Mrs. Sansom's--Her Daughter a Guide for Gen. Forrest when He Captured Gen. Streight--Cross the Black Warrior River and Sand Mountains--Decatur--Some Fighting at Decatur--Gen. Beauregard with Hood--Beautiful Valley of the Tennessee made Desolate by War--Tuscumbia--Dreary March to Columbia, Rain and Snow--Stewart's and Cheatham's Corps Cross Duck River _en Route_ to Spring Hill--Hood Slept--Schofield Passed By--Pursue Schofield to Franklin--Battle of Franklin--Incidents--Remarkable Order for a Second Assault at Night--Losses in My Two Brigades--Exchange of Prisoners Stopped CHAPTER XVIII. 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 CHAPTER XIX. Aspect of the Country at Termination of the War--The Returned 310 Confederate Soldier--Carpetbaggers--Lincoln's Vow--His Proclamation Concerning Confiscation of Slaves--How the Slaves Were Legally Liberated--Lincoln Murdered--Johnson President--His Thirst for Vengeance--"Treason" to Be Made Odious--Grant Declared That the Paroles Must Not Be Violated--Cost of a Bill of Dry Goods in Confederate Money in 1864--Leave Columbus for Greenville, Miss.--Desolate Home--The Good Israelite--Return to Columbus--I Go with Mrs. French to Mississippi--Traveling Incognito a Failure--Journey to New York in 1865--Incidents of My Mother and Child When They Went North--Home Confiscated--Edward Cooper's Kind Act--No One Would Touch Mother's Trunks--Copy of a Contract in 1865, Whereby I Obtained Funds--People under Espionage at the North--Return to the Plantation--Northern Plan to Terminate the War CHAPTER XX.