Global InformationBattle of Franklin information
| Battle of Franklin | |||||||
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| Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
 Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison (1891) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States (Union) |
 Confederate States | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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John Schofield David S. Stanley |
 John Bell Hood | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Army of the Ohio | Army of Tennessee | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 27,000[2] | 27,000-31,000[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 2,326 (total: 189 killed, 1,033 wounded, 1,104 missing/captured)[2] |
7000 (1,750 KIA, 5,500 Wounded or captured.)
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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. Confederate Lieutenant General (LTG) John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Major General (MGEN) John Schofield and was unable to prevent Schofield from executing a planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville.
The Confederate assault of six infantry divisions containing eighteen brigades with 100 regiments numbering almost 20,000 men, sometimes called the "Pickett's Charge of the West", resulted in devastating losses to the men and the leadership of the Army of Tennessee—fourteen Confederate generals (six killed, seven wounded, and one captured) and 55 regimental commanders were casualties. After its defeat against MGEN George H. Thomas in the subsequent Battle of Nashville, the Army of Tennessee retreated with barely half the men with which it had begun the short offensive, and was effectively destroyed as a fighting force for the remainder of the war.
The 1864 Battle of Franklin was the second military action in the vicinity; a battle in 1863 was a minor action associated with a reconnaissance in force by Confederate cavalry leader MGEN Earl Van Dorn on April 10.
- ^ "Battle Detail - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. National Park Service. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
- ^ a b c Eicher, McPherson & McPherson (2001), p. 774.
- ^ U.S. War Dept., Official Records, Vol. 45/1, p. 654- Reports of General John B. Hood, C. S, Army, commanding Army of Tennessee, February 15, 1865, pp. 652-662
- ^ Foard (1892), p. 133.
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