Five Tragic Hours
Author: James L. McDonough
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780870493966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume describes the events and details of the five hour battle at Franklin, Tenn. in 1864.
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The Battle of Franklin
Author: James R. Knight
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781596297456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn late November 1864, the last Southern army east of the Mississippi that was still free to maneuver started out from northern Alabama on the Confederacy's last offensive. John Bell Hood and his Army of Tennessee had dreams of capturing Nashville and marching on to the Ohio River, but a small Union force under Hood's old West Point roommate stood between him and the state capital. In a desperate attempt to smash John Schofield's line at Franklin, Hood threw most of his men against the Union works, centered on the house of a family named Carter, and lost 30 percent of his attacking force in one afternoon, crippling his army and setting it up for a knockout blow at Nashville two weeks later. With firsthand accounts, letters and diary entries from the Carter House Archives, local historian James R. Knight paints a vivid picture of this gruesome conflict.
The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864
Author: Robert Webb Banks
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Widow of the South
Author: Robert Hicks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2005-08-30
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 0759514437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more than 1,000 were laid to rest.
A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn
Author: John M. Copley
Publisher:
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780615618722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the beginning of the Civil War, John M. Copley was a young boy from Dickson County, Tennessee. As a fifteen year old, he enlisted in Company B, 49th Tennessee Infantry in Charlotte, Tennessee. In this narrative, the reader is taken on a journey with Copley from his enlistment in 1861 through the end of the war. The narrative particularly focuses on Copley's participation in Hood's fateful 1864 Tennessee Campaign and his capture amidst the indescribably staggering carnage of the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee on November 30, 1864. Here, Copley as a soldier in Quarles' Brigade, Walthall's Division, was captured on the east side of the Columbia Turnpike near the famous Carter cotton gin. After an all-night march without rations, Copley and his fellow prisoners were taken to the Tennessee State Penitentiary where they awaited transportation by train to Louisville, Kentucky, and further transportation by rail to Chicago, Illinois. Here, at Camp Douglas, Copley, in vivid details, describes the wretched conditions and inhumane treatment he and others received as Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois.
The Battle of Franklin
Author: A. S. Peterson
Publisher: Rabbit Room
Published: 2017-08-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998311241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn November 30th, 1864, more than 40,000 Union and Confederate troops converged on Franklin, Tennessee, and fought one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Said one who saw it, "It was as if the devil had full possession of the earth." The events of that battle have passed not only into history, but into legend. Names like Tod Carter and John Bell Hood have found their ways into our poems and songs and folk tales. But what do these stories have to say to us today? Through the power of music and drama, this original work takes us back in time to witness the tragic struggle between father and son, between master and slave, between North and South. It's a tale of a broken family and a broken nation. But in the end, the story of the Battle of Franklin is about more than mere history--it's about the conflict in all of us, and our hope of restoration.
Eyewitnesses at the Battle of Franklin
Author: David R. Logsdon
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780962601835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHood's Tennessee Campaign
Author: James R. Knight
Publisher: Civil War
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781626195974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tennessee Campaign of November and December 1864 was the Southern Confederacy's last significant offensive operation of the Civil War. General John Bell Hood of the Confederate Army of Tennessee attempted to capture Nashville, the final realistic chance for a battlefield victory against the Northern juggernaut. Hood's former West Point instructor, Major General George Henry Thomas, led the Union force, fighting those who doubted him in his own army as well as Hood's Confederates. Through the bloody, horrific battles at Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville and a freezing retreat to the Tennessee River, Hood ultimately failed. Civil War historian James R. Knight chronicles the Confederacy's last real hope at victory and its bitter disappointment.
The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864
Author: Jacob Dolson Cox
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864
Author: R. W. Banks
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-27
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9781330240380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864: The Bloodiest Engagement of the War Between the States The battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, was, on some parts of the line, the bloodiest of the Civil War. Never on any field did braver men go. Nor did men ever dare and do more than was done by the Confederates to whom it fell to bear the heat and burden of that fateful day. That much will be demonstrated in the following narrative so plainly that the assertion may hereafter be accepted as a historic truth; for no statement of material fact will be made which the writer is not prepared to authenticate. To place a proper estimate upon the prowess of the Army of Tennessee at Franklin it is necessary to keep in mind its antecedents, in the then recent past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
