BATTLE OF FRANKLIN

In late November 1864, the last Southern army east of the Mississippi that was still free to maneuver started out from northern Alabama on the Confederacy's last offensive. John Bell Hood and his Army of Tennessee had dreams of capturing Nashville and marching on to the Ohio River, but a small Union force under Hood's old West Point roommate stood between him and the state capital. In a desperate attempt to smash John Schofield's line at Franklin, Hood threw most of his men against the Union works, centered on the house of a family named Carter, and lost 30 percent of his attacking force in one afternoon, crippling his army and setting it up for a knockout blow at Nashville two weeks later. With firsthand accounts, letters and diary entries from the Carter House Archives, local historian James R. Knight paints a vivid picture of this gruesome conflict.

La sfarsitul lunii noiembrie 1864, ultima armata sudica la est de Mississippi, care era inca libera de manevrat, a inceput din nordul Alabamei, la ultima ofensiva a Confederatiei. John Bell Hood si armata sa din Tennessee au visat sa cucereasca Nashville si sa mearga spre raul Ohio, dar o mica forta a Uniunii aflata sub vechiul coleg de camera al lui West Point se afla intre el si capitala statului.