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The Battle of Franklin Trust has also been putting up historical markers to help visitors understand how the Civil War redefined the country. “Somebody’s memory has to be told.
Author Andrew Bledsoe talked about decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders at the 1864 Battle of Franklin in Tennessee and how those tactical strategies led to one of the worst ...
CINCINNATI, Saturday, Dec. 3. The correspondent of the Gazette, writing from Nashville, gives the following particulars of the battle of Franklin, Tennessee: The plan of the battle was very simple.
This is the Kurz & Allison depiction of the November 1864 Battle of Franklin in Tennessee. It was one of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. You can learn more about the battle, and the affair ...
The Fedral loss in the battle of Franklin, as ascertained by official reports, is greater than at first supposed. In the Second Division of the Twenty-third Corps the loss was thirty-four officers ...
It's Franklin, Tenn., a little town south of Nashville where on Nov. 30, 1864, the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee smashed itself in a last-ditch move to check the progress of federal arms in the ...
The Battle of Franklin, held Nov. 30, 1864, was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate Army. The Battle of Franklin Trust refers to it as “the last great battle of the ...
Stories like Hubert's are what the hall's executive director, Rachael Finch, wants to bring to life during the 155th anniversary of the Battle of Franklin on Nov. 30.
"The battle was fought on a Wednesday; so it's a Wednesday. Obviously it's November 30th. It's about 60 degrees, clear, which it was that day. And it's a day past new moon, which it was in 1864.
“This one’s going to be based around the 9th Indiana Infantry, which was heavily recruited out of Porter County and their experiences at the Battle of Franklin in November of 1864,” said Ian ...
Despite his inferior numbers and battered army, Hood attempted to lay siege to the city. Thomas would eventually launch a major assault on Hood, in the Battle of Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864), ...
According to the complaint, the markers commemorated the deaths of Confederate generals killed in the Battle of Franklin on Nov. 30, 1864. The markers were installed in 1999.