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Franklin 150th: To Die Like Men
It had all led to this: Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, known as the “Stonewall of the West,” galloped up to his brigade commanders assembled on top of Breezy Hill, just south of the little town of Franklin, Tennessee. “He seemed greatly depressed and fully realized, as did every officer present, the desperate nature of […]
Read more...Franklin 150th: The McGavocks, Carnton, and the Battle of Franklin
In the late afternoon of November 30, 1864, 30,000 Confederate troops, under General Hood’s direction, made an attack on General Schofield’s federal defenses in Franklin, Tennessee. With up to 10,000 casualties in the five hour engagement, scores of dead and wounded were left on the battlefield or carried to make-shift field hospitals in and around […]
Read more...Franklin 150th: The Last Thing He Ever Saw….
William Decatur Mintz, known as Dee, was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, to a respectable farming family, but like many young me, he saw opportunity on the frontier. Dee ended up in Little Rock, Arkansas, when the Secession Crisis began, and when Arkansas called for troops, he enlisted in what became Company C of […]
Read more...Battle Scarred–a Special Exhibition at Carnton Plantation Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Franklin
When the call at ECW went out for articles concerning the Battle of Franklin, I immediately went to the website for the Battle of Franklin Trust http://www.battleoffranklintrust.org/boft.htm. I have been visiting quite a few Civil War websites recently, and am beginning to be a bit critical of those that “work” and those that lead one […]
Read more...No NPS? No Problem!—Franklin
Part Eleven in a series prompted by the federal government shutdown. At press time, Congress had approved a budget but it had not yet made its way to the president. by Lee White Of all the battlefields of the civil war not protected by the National Park Service, the remains of the field at Franklin seem to […]
Read more...Chancellorsville: R. E. Lee’s Greatest Pyrrhic Victory
This blog expands on the discussion Ryan Quint wrote in his 2022 ECW blog, “More than Just Jackson” and Chris Mackowski’s and Kris White’s Chancellorsville research.[1] What’s a “Pyrrhic victory?” It’s a victory that results in such a heavy toll it negates any true sense of achievement, or a victory in which a commander loses […]
Read more...Book Review: The Folly and the Madness: The Civil War Letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry
The Folly and the Madness: The Civil War Letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry. Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2023. Softcover, 264 pp. $39.00. Reviewed by David A. Powell The vast primary source literature of the American Civil War is not so crowded of a […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association Awards Announced
The Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association (TCWPA) announced the winners of the 2024 Mary Ann Peckham/Robert A. Ragland award at their annual meeting on March 9th. The award recognizes leaders from across the state of Tennessee for their work in their communities to protect and interpret Civil War sites. TCWPA President Anthony Hodges presented the […]
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