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The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign [3] [4] that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War.
In a last, desperate attempt to force Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union army out of Georgia, Gen. John Bell Hood led the Army of Tennessee north toward Nashville in November 1864. After suffering terrible losses at Franklin, he continued toward Nashville. Hood recognized that Federal forces at Murfreesboro posed a significant threat to his ...
14th Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Raleigh R. White; 15th Tennessee Cavalry; Biffle's Brigade Col Jacob B. Biffle 4th Tennessee Cavalry; 9th Tennessee Cavalry; 10th Tennessee Cavalry; Buford's Division (Detached; at Murfreesboro) BG Abraham Buford. Bell's Brigade Col Tyree H. Bell. 2nd/22nd Tennessee Cavalry (Barteau's) 19th Tennessee Cavalry
The Battle of Nashville was one of the most stunning victories achieved by the Union Army in the war. The formidable Army of Tennessee, the second largest Confederate force, was effectively destroyed as a fighting force. Hood's army entered Tennessee with over 30,000 men but left with 15–20,000. [85] [note 14]
German immigrant Albert Lotz and his family were surprised at their home on Columbia Pike on the morning of November 30, 1864, to find thousands of Federal troops marching in front of their house heading north to Nashville, Tennessee, but unable to proceed across the swollen Harpeth River. Confederate troops attacked with 20,000 men at that ...
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 .
Order of battle compiled from the army organization [1] during the battle (December 15–16, 1864). [2] The Union force was a conglomerate of units from several different departments provisionally attached to George H. Thomas ’ Department of the Cumberland .
Fort Negley was a fortification built by Union troops after the capture of Nashville, Tennessee during the American Civil War, located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the city center. It was the largest inland fort built in the United States during the war. [1]