Battle of Franklin
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The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in 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 t
Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison (1891)
Kentucky-Northern Tennessee, 1864
Southern Tennessee-Alabama, 1864
View north from Hood's headquarters on Winstead Hill (engraving from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War)
Patrick Cleburne
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Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a senior officer in the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Battle of Franklin
…a Federal force that had had only a few hours to build defenses, instead of Nashville where "they have been strengthening themselves for three years." Patrick Cleburne observed the enemy fortifications as being formidable, but he told the commanding general that he would either take the enemy's works or fall in the…
Cleburne in c. 1862
Cleburne's statue at Ringgold Gap, Georgia by sculptor Ron Tunison
Memorial to Cleburne in Franklin
St. John's Episcopal Church