National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee - Graceland, Battle of Franklin, List of National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee, Sycamore Shoals (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Graceland, Battle of Franklin, List of National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee, Sycamore Shoals, Sun Studio, Pinson Mounds, Delta Queen, Beale Street, William Blount Mansion, Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park, The Hermitage, Ryman Auditorium, Peabody College, X-10 Graphite Reactor, Shiloh Indian Mounds Site, Shiloh National Military Park, Fort Loudoun, Tennessee State Capitol, Fort Pillow State Park, Chucalissa Indian Village, T. O. Fuller State Park, Long Island, Rhea County Courthouse, Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites, Downtown Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Franklin Battlefield, James K. Polk Ancestral Home, Wynnewood, Moccasin Bend, Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7, Jubilee Hall, Montgomery Bell Tunnel, Rattle and Snap. Excerpt: The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tennessee, as 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. 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 M. Schofield and was unable to break through or to prevent Schofield from a planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville. The Confederate assault with eighteen brigades of 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 or mortally wounded, seven wounded, and one captured) and 55 regimental commanders were casualties. After its defeat against Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas in the subsequent Battle of Nashville, the Army of Tennessee retreated with barely half the men with which it had begun the short offensive, and was effectively destroyed as a fighting ...