The Black Flower 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 John Bell Hood's Army of the Tennessee made numerous frontal attacks against fortified positions occupied by Union forces under the command of Major General John M. Schofield and was unable to break through or d to prevent Schofield from a planned and orderly withdrawal towards Nashville. .The Confederate assault of six infantry divisions containing eighteen brigades with 100 regiments totaling nearly 20,000 men, sometimes called the "Pickett's Charge of the West", resulted in devastating losses for men and leaders of the Army of Tennessee: fourteen Confederate generals and 55 regimental commanders were casualties. After its defeat by Major General George H. Thomas in the ensuing Battle of Nashville, the Army of Tennessee withdrew 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 war. The Battle of Franklin in 1864 was the second military action fought in the area. The Battle of Franklin was a minor action associated with a reconnaissance in force by Confederate cavalry leader Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn on April 10. After his defeat in the Atlanta Campaign, Hood had hoped to attract Major General William T. Sherman. in the battle by disrupting his rail supply line from Chattanooga to Atlanta. After a brief period in which he pursued Hood, Sherman decided to cut his main army from these lines and "live off the land" on his famous march to the sea from Atlanta to Savannah. By...... middle of paper ......006-0650-5. First published as Embrace an Angry Wind in 1992 by HarperCollins. Welcher, Frank J. The Union Army, 1861–1865 Organization and Operations. Flight. 2, The Western Theater. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-253-36454-X. Further readingCox, Jacob D.. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookstore, 1983. First published in 1897 by Sons.Foote, Shelby by Charles Scribner. The Civil War: A Story. Flight. 3, from the Red River to Appomattox. New York: Random House, 1974. ISBN 0-394-74913-8. McDonough, James L. and Thomas L. Connelly. Five tragic hours: the battle of Franklin. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-87049-396-6. External Links: Preservation maps, stories, photos and news, Tennessee Civil War Preservation AssociationFranklin IIFranklin IIFranklin IIBibliography: Wikipedia@baygross