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History is bunk.


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Henry Ford

The Battle of Franklin, TN was a source of great loss to the Confederacy. There were fourteen Confederate generals who were casualties there. One was captured, seven were wounded and six were killed. Devastating loss.

SRH

Anyone interested in the Battle of Franklin and the real story of General Hood should read Shrouds of Glory by Winston Groome.

The Sickening part of Franklin was it should never have even taken place. Hood was ahead of Thomas at Springhill, all he had to do was move in & secure the road, he knew which way Thomas was headed. He failed to do so & Thomas slipped his entire outfit by during the night & set up defences in Franklin. Hood then tried a direct frontal attack across open ground on a well entrenched opponent. He Lost Big Time. One of my G Grandfathers was there, but his life was likely spared by the fact he had been placed in charge of the Horses & Wagons & was not directly engaged in the battle.

The terrible tragedies of war. So much loss in such a short time................ Atlanta, Franklin, Sherman's March To The Sea.

There is still much bitterness about Sherman in Georgia, and also throughout the Lowcountry of South Carolina, even though he cut his hellacious path through this part of GA. My wife's G G Aunt was gang raped by Sherman's men, with no recourse. She went insane because of it, and died in an asylum.

SRH

My great aunt was 5 years old when Selma fell and told us young boys about the family hiding the silver in the well to keep Feds from stealing it. That was in 1952-we were 8, she was 92. And I remember driving through Georgia in the late 1940's-early 1950's and when we passed a burnt out house, my mother would point to the chimneys left standing in the field and say, "Those are Sherman's smokestacks."

As for Franklin and Nashville, that has to be laid at the feet of General Hood. I drove over to Tennessee with my two young boys for a giant reenactment of Franklin, Spring Hill and Nashville...must have been about the year 1998 with 13,000 reenactors in the field and over 800 cavalry--western reenactments always drew a lot of horses. The Southern lines went in at Franklin with bands playing..."the tooters and the shooters" as one diariest said. The sad thing is Spring Hill could have ended it. And in the end the objective of the offensive, Nashville, was not worth it. (Trivia, Rhett Butler, after he decided the cause was worth it, abandoned his smuggling ship and was wounded heroically at Franklin in GWTW).

after gettysburg and vicksburg, there was no point in continuing the war...the cause was lost...the only reason for the south to keep fighting was, as rhett put it...arrogance...

It is well to note that as late as Lee's surrender at Appomattox the majority of his Troops were not in favor of surrendering, but would have preferred to keep fighting. Rhett Butler not withstanding I do not see the reason as being Arrogance.

Stan;
It truly infuriates me the way Sherman is praised in today's society as a Great Soldier. Beginning with Atlanta his war became as much against the Civilian population as against the CSA troops. In Gettysburg 1 civilian was killed by the Confederate troops & that was basically an accident. Sherman either encouraged or totally turned his head to atrocities inflicted upon the civilian population.

Stupidity then. A people should know when they are beaten.

Sherman is one of my favorites.


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Don�t tug on Superman�s cape. Jim Croce

I believe the correct name for such weapons used at that time was "coaching carbine" or more commonly blunderbuss. Famous makers were: Richard Noyes of London, Durs Egg of London, Walker of London. As you probably imagine English ones were superior to what was made here.