Battle of Franklin

Battle of Franklin
Part of the American Civil War
Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison (1891)
Date November 30, 1864 (1864-11-30) Location Franklin, Tennessee 35.9174°N 86.8733°W / 35.9174; -86.8733 Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States (Union)	Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
John Schofield David S. Stanley	John Bell Hood
Units involved
Army of the Ohio	Army of Tennessee
Strength
27,000	27,000–31,000
Casualties and losses
2,326 (total: 189 killed, 1,033 wounded, 1,104 missing/captured)	Schofield's estimate: 6,252 (1,750 killed, 3,800 wounded, 702 missing/captured) Hood's report: 4,500

The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee. It was part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst battles in the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee made many frontal assaults against areas with lots of fortification. The Confederate Army was trying to attack the Union forces under Major General John Schofield. The Army of Tennessee wanted to stop the Union Army from retreating to Nashville. The Army of Tennessee was not able to do this.

The Confederate made a frontal assault to Schofield's army. The assault had 6 infantry divisions. The six divisions had eighteen brigades with 100 regiments. This assault had 20,000 men in total. This assault was sometimes called "Pickett's Charge of the West". This charge led to many losses in the Army of Tennessee. There were 14 confederate generals with casualties (six killed, seven wounded, and one captured). There were 55 regimental commanders were casualties. After the army lost against George H. Thomas in the Battle of Nashville, the Army of Tennessee retreated.

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Memoirs and primary sources

• Cox, Jacob D. (1897). The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864 : a monograph. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. LCCN 03026860. OCLC 559888956.
• Hood, John Bell (1996). Advance and retreat : personal experiences in the United States and Confederate States armies. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-585-26794-4. OCLC 45727510.. First published 1880 for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund by G.T. Beauregard.
• U.S. War Department (1889). Operations in Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and North Georgia. November 14, 1864-January 22, 1865., Part I - Reports, Union and Confederate Correspondence, etc. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Vol. XLV-LVII-I. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 53–55, 663. hdl:2027/coo.31924077743031. OCLC 857196196. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Further reading

• Foote, Shelby (1974). The Civil War Volume III: Red River to Appomattox (Random House 2011 ed.). New York, NY: Random House. pp. 1, 120. ISBN 978-1-4090-7858-6. OCLC 1004975561.
• McDonough, James L.; Connelly, Thomas Lawrence (1983). Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-87049-396-6. OCLC 10891021.
• "Letter, Alonzo Wolverton to his sister Roseltha olverton Goble, December 4, 1864". Wolverton Family Letters. Archives of Ontario. Archived from the original on August 30, 2018. Retrieved September 8, 2018.

Other websites

• Battle of Franklin: Battle Maps, histories, photos, and preservation news (Civil War Trust)
• Animated map of the Battle of Franklin Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine (Civil War Trust)
• A blog-database for descendants of the Battle of Franklin
• Google Map of the Battle of Franklin Archived January 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
• Battle of Franklin.net
• Animated history of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
• Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
• Carter House Museum
• Carnton Plantation
• McGavock Confederate Cemetery
• West Point Atlas map, Battles of Spring Hill and Franklin
• Historic map of Franklin, Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association
• John Bell Hood Society's defense of Hood's 1864 Tennessee campaign
• On this date in Civil War history – Battle of Franklin – November 30, 1864