In December 1864, Confederate troops were moving toward Nashville with a plan. Union troops had occupied this southern city for the last two years, and Lieutenant General John Bell Hood wanted to take it back.
Luckily, the Union army had prepared for this very moment by building a 180,000 square-foot fortress near downtown Nashville called Fort Negley
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