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How I Got Hooked on Franklin: The Story Behind Let Us Die Like Men
My story for Franklin began when I was around ten years old. The stories my grandparents told inspired my love of history, and my dad’s fateful purchase of Bruce Catton’s American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War sparked my imagination. I spent countless hours pouring over the pictures and wonderful illustrated maps by David […]
Read more...On the Way to Franklin
A footpath parallels the road that leads to Carnton Plantation on the Franklin Battlefield. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the battle: November 30, 1864.
Read more...ECW on C-SPAN: Lee White and the Battle of Franklin
Just in time for the anniversary of the battle of Franklin: Lee White’s talk from the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge! Lee spoke on the Army of Tennessee’s ill-fated but successful assaults at the battle of Franklin. His talk, originally slated to appear at the end of October, was bumped for […]
Read more...ECW on C-SPAN: Lee White and the Battle of Franklin
The next-to-last segment from the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge airs this Saturday on C-SPAN3: Lee White’s talk on the battle of Franklin. The episode airs at 6:00 p.m. on C-SPAN 3. Meanwhile, Steve Davis’s talk on the battle of Atlanta airs on Saturday at 2:35 Eastern.
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: William Lee White and the Battle of Franklin
As we close in on our annual symposium, we like to highlight the speakers that we have invited to present at the event. We are excited to welcome William Lee White to this years symposium lineup. Lee is traveling in from the western reaches of the Emerging Civil War realm. An early contributor to Emerging […]
Read more...Day Five: Franklin
Part thirteen in a series The losses at Franklin are the stuff of legend: six thousand-plus Confederate casualties, plus six dead Confederate generals. John Bell Hood threw the 30-thousand men of the Army of Tennessee against Federal fortifications, winning the battle but destroying his army. Nearly 8,000 Confederates fell. Those soldiers now lie in neat rows on […]
Read more...Preservation of the Franklin Battlefield
From ECW Correspondent Jason Klaiber Over the last ten years, the Civil War Trust has worked tirelessly to reclaim the once-lost Franklin battlefield in central Tennessee, where Confederates attacked Union forces on November 30, 1864. The attack ignited horrific, close-quarters combat that lasted five hours. According to Southern author Sam Watkins, this battle served as […]
Read more...Franklin 150th: Artillery Hell
One of the things often remembered about Gen. John Bell Hood’s attack is that it was made without artillery support. Like many of the aspects of Franklin, this isn’t entirely true. In fact, there were a few batteries present, one of which was Guibor’s Missouri Battery. The following is the harrowing account of Franklin from […]
Read more...Franklin 150th: “I never saw the dead lay near so thick.”
It was a near-run thing—John M. Schofield’s Federals steadily marching down the Columbia Pike towards Franklin through the night of Nov. 29 while sitting close to their camp fires were the Confederates of John B. Hood. The two former West Point roommates, Schofield and Hood, were now pitted against each other as they battled through […]
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