Battle of Franklin (1864) | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of Franklin (1864)


00:01:28 1 Background
00:01:37 1.1 Military situation
00:03:56 1.2 Road to Franklin, November 21–29
00:06:58 1.3 Union defensive plans
00:11:26 1.4 Hood's arrival and plan
00:14:06 2 Opposing forces
00:14:16 2.1 Union
00:15:10 2.2 Confederate
00:16:28 3 Battle
00:16:37 3.1 Initial contact
00:17:37 3.2 Breakthrough and repulse in the Federal center
00:21:08 3.3 Repulse on the Federal left
00:23:21 3.4 Failures on the Confederate left and center
00:25:24 3.5 Cavalry actions
00:26:45 4 Aftermath
00:31:08 5 Battlefield today
00:34:43 6 See also



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The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield and was unable to break through or to prevent Schofield from executing a planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville.
The Confederate assault of six infantry divisions containing eighteen brigades with 100 regiments numbering almost 20,000 men, sometimes called the "Pickett's Charge of the West", resulted in devastating losses to the men and the leadership of the Army of Tennessee—fourteen Confederate generals (six killed, seven wounded, and one captured) and 55 regimental commanders were casualties. After its defeat against Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas in the subsequent Battle of Nashville, the Army of Tennessee retreated with barely half the men with which it had begun the short offensive, and was effectively destroyed as a fighting force for the remainder of the war.
The 1864 Battle of Franklin was the second military action in the vicinity; a battle in 1863 was a minor action associated with a reconnaissance in force by Confederate cavalry leader Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn on April 10.