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The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in ... 1864. Map of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign ... Hood's Army of Tennessee arrived south of the city on December ...
16th South Carolina: Cpt John W. Boling; 24th South Carolina: Cpt William C. Griffith; Strahl's Brigade Col Andrew J. Kellar 4th-5th-31st-33rd-38th Tennessee: Ltc Luke W. Finlay; 19th-24th-41st Tennessee: Cpt Daniel A. Kennedy; Maney's Brigade Col Hume R. Field 4th (Provision Army)-6th-9th-50th Tennessee: Ltc George W. Pease
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]
Fisher, Noel C. War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860–1869 (2000) excerpt and text search; Frisby, Derek W. Campaigns in Mississippi and Tennessee, February-December 1864 Center of Military History (2014) 67pp; Groom, Winston. Shiloh, 1862: The First Great and Terrible Battle of the Civil War (2011)
16th South Carolina: Maj B. Burgh Smith; 24th South Carolina: Col Ellison Capers (w), Cpt William C. Griffith; Maney's Brigade BG John C. Carter (mw) Col Hume R. Field 1st-27th Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field; 4th (34th) Tennessee (provisional) 6th-9th Tennessee; 8th Tennessee; 16th Tennessee; 28th Tennessee; 50th Tennessee; Strahl's Brigade
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 .
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 .
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 ...