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The Union Army of the Cumberland arrived in Franklin, after a forced march from Spring Hill to the south, at about 01:00. Brig. Gen. Jacob Dolson Cox, commander of the Federal 23rd Corps (and later governor of Ohio), immediately began preparing strong defensive positions around breastworks constructed in 1863.
The Confederate Army of Tennessee arrived late that afternoon. Gen. John Bell Hood had recently replaced Gen. Joseph E. Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee, and was noted for his aggressive battlefield leadership. Hood, over the objections of his top generals, ordered a frontal assault in the dwindling afternoon light against the Union forces, now strongly entrenched behind three lines of breastworks. Many historians believe that Hood, still angry that the Federal army had slipped past his troops the night before at Spring Hill, acted irrationally in ordering the attack. After five hours of fierce fighting, much of it after dark, the Confederates briefly broke the Union line but then were thrown back. Union commander Gen. John McAllister Schofield, who spent the battle in Fort Granger (just across the Harpeth River, northeast of Franklin), later ordered a nighttime withdrawal to Nashville. This left the devastated Confederate forces in control of Franklin.
More men of the Confederate Army of Tennessee were killed in five hours at Franklin than in two days at the Battle of ShilohThe Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the American Civil War, fought in south central Tennessee, 25 miles northeast of Corinth, Mississippi. It took place on April 6 and April 7, 1862. It is also called the Battle of Pittsburg Landing . In March, aft. The Confederates suffered more than 7,500 casualties, and their military leadership in the west was decimated, including the loss of such skilled generalGeneral is a military rank, in most nations the highest rank, although some nations have the higher rank of Field Marshal. The title is used by land and sometimes air forces. In the navies of the world, the equivalent rank is Admiral. Its equivalent ranks as Pat CleburnePatrick Ronayne Cleburne (1828-1864) was a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a resident of the State of Arkansas. Early Life Cleburne was born in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland on 16 March, 1828. Cleburne was the. Fifteen Confederate generals were casualties (killed, wounded or captured), and 65 field grade officers were lost. Union casualties totaled just 2,500.
The Confederate Army of Tennessee was all but destroyed at Franklin. Nevertheless, Hood immediately advanced against the entire Union Army of the Cumberland, firmly entrenched at Nashville, leading his battered forces to further disaster in the battle of NashvilleThe Battle of Nashville fought at Nashville, Tennessee, began on December 15, 1864. The Confederate Army of Tennessee had 'defeated' a contingent of Union forces at the Battle of Franklin, but had lost almost a quarter of its men. Rather than regroup, Joh.
In his Pulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary award given out each April. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States. The prize was-winning book Battle Cry of Freedom, historian James M. McPhersonMcPherson (born October 11, 1936) is a famous United States Civil War historian. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom his most famous book. Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus Colleg wrote,
The Carter House, which stands today and is open to visitors, was at the center of the Union lines; it and its outbuildings still show more than a thousand bullet holes. Much of the rest of the Franklin battlefield has been lost to commercial development. The spot where Cleburne fell, for instance, is now covered by a pizzeria. However, city officials and historic-preservation groups have recently placed a new emphasis on saving what remains of the land over which this terrible battle raged.