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grants. Next target was Nashville, where factories were turning out guns, uniforms and other materials for the Southern armies. The Nashville Arsenal also had great stores of food supplies, clothing and munitions in its warehouses. As grants Army near Nashville and capture was inevitable. Confederate troops, aided by civilians, began burning any excess supplies they could not take with them. The soldiers burned so much bacon and fat fact that the sky turned black and greasy. On February 24th Union troops under the command of General Don Carlos Buell occupied Nashville. The Confederacy was reeling over a number of defeats for its Henry, and Donaldson had fallen in Tennessee. Nashville had been occupied by union forces, and Tennessee Governor Isham Harris had moved the state capital from Nashville to Memphis. Roanoke Island and part of North Carolina had been lost. The union blockade was proving effective, but the Tennessee River was still open. It's so much a part of us that it seems to be engendered in us from birth. Little Children somehow instinctively know how to play it. It's legend and myth. It's controversy and scandal, pride and passion, victory and heartbreak. It's like no other sport in the world. Listen now, as radio theater presents America's favorite pastime theme, major part of the fight that would take place if the greasy grass was within an area of about five miles long and three miles wide. There were perhaps as many as 1500 lodges. No one knew for sure, camped on the greasy grass with as many as 8000 Indians with 2 to 3000 fighting men. And later, when asked how many ponies were there and Indian simply said they were like the popular once were they covered the ground like Gratz.