Battle of Franklin
11/30/1864 AD defeated
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.
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.
Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John Schofield and was unable to prevent Schofield from executing a planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville.
Lattitude: 35.9291° N
Longitude: 86.8575° W
Region: North America
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