The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864: A Monograph |
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Adjutant advance Appendix artillery assault Atlanta campaign attack Bate's battery battle of Franklin battle of Nashville breastworks bridge campaign Captain Carter Hill Carter house Carter's Creek Turnpike Casement's cavalry centre Colonel Opdycke Columbia pike Columbia Turnpike column command Confederate cotton-gin directed dispatch Duck River enemy enemy's engagement field fight fire force Ford Forrest Fort Granger forward Fourth Corps front guns Harpeth River Hood Hood's Indiana infantry intrenchments Kimball's division Lane's brigade Lewisburg Lieut locust grove main line midnight miles Moore's brigade movement Nashville o'clock officers official report Ohio Opdycke's brigade orders parapet position rallied reached rear regiment Reilly Reilly's brigade repulsed reserve retire retreat road Ruger's division says Schofield second line sent side skirmish line Spring Hill staff Stanley Stanley's statement Stiles's Strickland's brigade subordinates Tennessee Thomas tion town troops Twenty-third Corps Wagner's division Wagner's two brigades wagons Winstead Hill Wood's wounded
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Page 274 - If, upon marches, guards or in quarters, different corps of the army shall happen to join or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the army, marine corps or militia, by commission, there on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful to the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President of the United States, according to the nature of the case.
Page 328 - Ohio Batteries, broke and ran to the rear with the fugitives from Conrad's brigade. To add to the disorder the caissons of the two batteries galloped rapidly to the rear, and the enemy appeared on the breastworks and in possession of the two batteries, which they commenced to turn upon us.
Page 153 - Here the engagement was of the fiercest possible character. Our men possessed themselves of the exterior of the works, while the enemy held the interior. Many of our men were killed entirely inside the works. The brave men captured were taken inside his works in the edge of the town. The struggle lasted till near midnight, when the enemy abandoned his works and crossed the river, leaving his dead and wounded in our possession.
Page 329 - ... our two bridges than the extremities of our line. Colonel Opdycke's brigade was lying down about one hundred yards in rear of the works. I rode quickly to the left regiment and called to them to charge; at the same time I saw Colonel Opdycke near the centre of his line urging his men forward.
Page 308 - A short time before the infantry attack commenced the enemy's cavalry forced a crossing about three miles above Franklin, and drove back our cavalry, for a time seriously threatening our trains, which were accumulating on the north bank, and moving toward Nashville. I sent General Wilson orders, which he had, however, anticipated, to drive the enemy back at all hazards, and moved a brigade of General Wood's division to support him, if necessary. At the moment of the first decisive repulse of the...
Page 329 - My wound did not prevent my keeping the field, and General Cox kindly furnished me a remount. The rapidity of the firing made it very difficult to keep up the ammunition. The train being some two miles distant, on the road to Nashville, when the battle commenced, our greatest danger at one period of the battle was that we would exhaust our ammunition.
Page 305 - I caused the railroad bridge to be prepared for crossing wagons, and had a foot bridge built for infantry, which fortunately also proved available for wagons, and used the fords as much as possible. I hoped, in spite of the difficulties, to get all my material, including the public property, and a large wagon train at Franklin, across the river, and move the army over before the enemy could get up force enough to attack me. But I put the troops...
Page 328 - The old soldiers all escaped, but the conscripts being afraid to run under fire, many of them were captured. Conrad's brigade entered the main line near the Columbia pike, Colonel Lane's several hundred yards to the right of the pike. A large proportion of Lane's men came back with loaded muskets, and, turning at the breastworks, they fired a volley into the pressing rebels now not ten steps from them.
Page 328 - ... forty minutes. When Wagner's division fell back from the heights south of Franklin, Opdycke's brigade was placed in reserve in rear of our main line, on the Columbia pike. Lane's and Conrad's brigades were deployed — the former on the right, the other the left of the pike — about three hundred yards in front of the main line.