Refusing to give up, Confederate General John Bell Hood today pushes his exhausted troops to the outskirts of Union-occupied Nashville. With the Confederacy in tatters, Hood is staking the future of the South on his impending assault of the Tennessee city. Georgia is helpless to stop Sherman, while Union forces are close to Richmond. If…
While the main military action is now taking place in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia (none favoring the Confederacy), small skirmishes take place elsewhere. One such engagement happens this day at the Concord Baptist Church in Yazoo County, Mississippi. In the brief encounter, Confederate forces from Arkansas and the Union’s Second Wisconsin Calvary clash, with the…
For the second time, the city of Franklin, Tennessee witnesses a bloody battle. In 1863, the Union Army defeated the Confederates at Franklin, and today the Federals do so again. Whereas the 1863 battle was a minor skirmish, however, today’s battle is an important engagement. General John Bell Hood‘s Confederate Army of the Tennessee desperately…