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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.
Franklin Battlefield was the site of the Second Battle of Franklin, which occurred late in the American Civil War. It is located in the southern part of Franklin, Tennessee , on U.S. 31 . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
The Lotz House (Lotz rhymes with “boats") [2] is a Greek Revival white frame two-story home built in 1858 in the middle Tennessee town of Franklin.The house is significant for being located at the epicenter of the Battle of Franklin in the American Civil War in 1864.
The McGavock Confederate Cemetery is located in Franklin, Tennessee. It was established in June 1866 as a private cemetery on land donated by the McGavock planter family. The nearly 1,500 Confederate soldiers buried there were casualties of the Battle of Franklin that took place November 30, 1864. They were first buried at the battleground, but ...
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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.
In the 1850s, Carter built a cotton gin on his property that became a much-remembered landmark during the Second Battle of Franklin in 1864. [2] Though the cotton gin no longer stands, the house and the other three buildings are still intact and illustrate the horror of the Civil War battle with over a thousand bullet holes still visible.
Franklin is a city in and the county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. [6] About 21 miles (34 km) south of Nashville , it is one of the principal cities of the Nashville metropolitan area and Middle Tennessee .