Determination. Desperation. Defiance. The very moods that one might argue have emerged in succession during the course of the war on the part of the Confederacy are all evident this very day in the Battle of Nashville. Confederate General John Bell Hood, leading the Army of the Tennessee, has evidenced, against daunting odds, a heroic…
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…
Today in the north Georgia mountains near Cartersville the Battle of Allatoona Pass takes place as the first major act in what becomes known as Confederate General John Bell Hood‘s Nashville Campaign, an offensive in north Georgia and central Tennessee designed to disrupt Union infrastructure and draw Sherman’s forces away from Atlanta. Confederate forces, having…