Decisions at Franklin: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle Bledsoe Andrew S.
Decisions at Franklin: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle Bledsoe Andrew S. The Battle of Franklin pitted beleaguered Confederate general John Bell Hood against Union general…
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Decisions at Franklin: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle Bledsoe Andrew S.
The Battle of Franklin pitted beleaguered Confederate general John Bell Hood against Union general John Schofield and his Army of the Ohio. While Hood forced the Army of Ohio to retreat to Nashville, his losses were considerable, and he would face a fortified Army of the Ohio yet again. The Army of Tennessee had nearly twenty thousand men when it began assaulting the Union's fortified positions around Franklin.
Rather than offering a history of the battle, Andrew Bledsoe hones in on a sequence of critical decisions made by commanders on Hood's defeat in the subsequent battle of Nashville shrunk the Army of Tennessee to fewer than ten thousand men and effectively neutralized the army for the remainder of the Civil War.Decisions at Franklin explores the critical decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders during the battle and how these decisions shaped its outcome.