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The 1864 Battle of Franklin was the second military action in the vicinity; a battle fought there on April 10, 1863, was a minor action associated with a reconnaissance in force by Confederate cavalry under Major General Earl Van Dorn.
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin of the American Civil War on November 30, 1864. Order of battle compiled from the army organization [1] during the campaign. [2] The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. [1] The Union order of battle is shown separately.
Battle of Franklin (disambiguation) This article includes an American Civil War orders of battle-related list of lists . If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
The Franklin–Nashville campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, [5] [6] in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War.
January 2 – Lemuel J. Bowden, United States Senator from Virginia from 1863 till 1864. (b. 1815) January 7 – Caleb Blood Smith, journalist and politician in the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln from 1862 to 1864 (born 1808) January 13 – Stephen Foster, songwriter (born 1826)
19th century illustration of the Battle of the Wilderness. In March, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed general-in-chief of the Union Army.He decided on a strategy of simultaneous offenses in the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi Theaters in order to grind down and ultimately defeat the Confederate armies.
The First Battle of Franklin was fought April 10, 1863, in Williamson County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War.It was a minor engagement in about the same location as that of the more famous Battle of Franklin (November 30, 1864), which was part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign.