The Battle of Franklin: Recollections of Confederate and Union Soldiers
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- By Lochlainn Seabrook
- 148 pages
- Paperback
- Illustrated
- 5.5" x 8.5"
Description: Yankees claimed they won the Battle of Franklin; the Confederates believed they were the victors. Each side displayed courage (and in some cases cowardice) amid appalling slaughter, while employing outstanding tactical maneuvers and committing elementary strategical errors. These facts raise important questions.
Why, for example, did Union General Wagner disobey orders at a crucial point in the battle, and why did Confederate General Hood place his most brilliant fighter, Nathan Bedford Forrest, on the far right where he knew he would have almost no impact? Why did Union General Schofield callously leave his dead and wounded on the battlefield the following day, and why, strangely, did General Hood attempt to renew the battle on the morning of December 1?
Why did Federal soldiers wantonly shoot down and kill Confederate General John Adams when they could have easily captured him instead, and why at Franklin was the casualty rate for Confederate officers and infantrymen the highest of any known modern battle?
These and a thousand other questions have long perplexed those with a sincere interest in both this particular battle and American Civil War history.What then is the full and true story of the sanguinary conflict that took place in Middle Tennessee on November 30, 1864, the day after the mysterious Battle of Spring Hill and two weeks before the one-sided Battle of Nashville?
What really happened during this violent engagement on the Plain of Franklin, rightly called by soldiers the “Valley of Death,” where the earth was so “red with blood” that it poured over the fields in “rivulets,” where in some places the bodies lay three layers deep, and where one could walk across the entire battlefield upon corpses without ever touching the ground?
This book addresses these questions in this captivating book, a chronicle of nearly 30 eyewitness accounts by military men who were on the battlefield that brisk Autumn day.
Col. Seabrook also furnishes narratives by civilians, clergy, women, and even children who lived through the conflict, providing additional context to a battle which, like Nashville, neither side had intended to fight.
The author-editor includes nearly 200 rare illustrations and photos to accompany the footnoted text, along with an introduction, battle statistics, 19th-Century maps, appendices, and a bibliography.
This book is part of Col. Seabrook’s “Hood’s Tennessee Campaign” trilogy series, which includes the two titles listed below. 68% of Amazon reviewers gave this read five stars. This title also comes in hardcover.
About the Author: American polymath and Kentucky Colonel, Lochlainn Seabrook is a bestselling, award-winning author of over 90 nonfiction books spanning multiple genres and is the author of the international blockbuster, Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
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Related Titles by Lochlainn Seabrook:
- The Battle of Nashville: Recollections of Confederate and Union Soldiers (150 pages)
- The Battle of Spring Hill: Recollections of Confederate and Union Soldiers (144 pages)
- Encyclopedia of the Battle of Franklin (920 pages)
- The McGavocks: A Southern History (1,050 pages)
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