Late in the afternoon of November 29, 1864, Hood established the headquarters of the Army of Tennessee at this location. He spent part of the evening sitting on a log near the house’s fish pond while officers and generals came and went seeking orders. As Confederate attacks and units went awry south of town, Hood told one general that Forrest held the turnpike with part of his forces north of Spring Hill and would stop the enemy if it tried to pass toward Franklin, so by morning there would be a surrender without a fight and they could sleep quietly that night. The Thompson family provided Hood and his staff with a big feast. With his left arm crippled at Gettysburg and his right leg amputated at Chickamauga, Hood had to be strapped into his saddle, and during the afternoon his horse had slipped on the treacherous roads and fallen on him. He was in physical pain, and it has been suggested that he used whiskey or laudanum to dull his agony. Believing that Schofield’s army was trapped and being incapacitated by his injuries, Hood went to bed at 9:00 in the evening, while Schofield’s army continued moving north on the Columbia-Franklin Pike.