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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.
Garrison duty at Fort Pickering, Defenses of Memphis, Tennessee, until March 1864, and garrison artillery at Nashville, Tennessee, until March 1865. Battle of Nashville December 15–16, 1864. Ordered to Johnsonville March 22, 1865, and duty there until July.
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]
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 .
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 ...
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 .
Originally known as the First West Tennessee U.S. Cavalry, the 6th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Bethel Springs, LaGrange, Bolivar, and Trenton, Tennessee and mustered on 11 August 1862 for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Fielding Hurst. These last four companies of the regiment were mustered in October 1862, as the ...
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