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  Battle of Franklin II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison, 1891.
The Second Battle of Franklin (more popularly known as The Battle of Franklin) was fought at Franklin, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War.
Typically, a Civil War battle is deemed a victory for the army that forces its opponent to withdraw, but Hood's "victory" came at a frightful cost.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Franklin   (1272 words)

  
 Battle Summary: Spring Hill, TN
Description: Spring Hill was the prelude to the Battle of Franklin.
On November 29, Hood’s infantry crossed Duck River and converged on Spring Hill.
Schofield reinforced the troops holding the crossroads at Spring Hill.
www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/tn035.htm   (194 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Battle of Halidon Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Battle of Halidon Hill (July 19, 1333) was the last of the Wars of Scottish Independence, ending that forty year struggle.
The battle lasted throughout July 19 but was almost entirely a slaughter of the Scottish forces.
In a reverse of the terrain at Bannockburn the Scots had to apporach through boggy ground and then climb up the hill to the waiting English, they were easy targets for archers.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Halidon_Hill   (414 words)

  
 Latest news on Civil War battle site preservation
Lieutenant Chesley Mosman, of the 59th Illinois, wrote later, "the Rebels were in line of battle south of town, a quarter of a mile from the Pike along which we marched, and their long lines of campfires burnt brightly.
Before 1990 the town of Spring Hill counted a population of some 1,200 and was still a small, rural village with primarily an agrarian-based economy.
Spring Hill, TN in Maury County is your general destination point.
www.civilwar.org /travelandevents/t_vs_springhill.htm   (692 words)

  
 Hernando Today - Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Apparently, as Spring Hill National proceeded to send 13 batters to the plate and score eight runs in the fourth.
Spring Hill American had a defensive highlight in the top of the fifth when Olivia D'Acunto snagged a liner on the mound and alertly threw to first for a double play, then got three runs back in the bottom half thanks a Maniatis bases-loaded walk, a bad pickoff and a sacrifice fly from Lindsay.
Spring Hill National, however, scored five in the sixth, Maggard and Forgach getting run-scoring singles and Castro lifting a ball over the center field fence and up against the concession building for a three-run homer.
www.hernandotoday.com /sports/MGBWO3EWDWD.html   (718 words)

  
 History and Battle Overview
The rolling hills, interspersed with tracts of woodland, are a lush green much of the year and cows and horses still dot the rural landscape.
Gist saw action at all of the major battles and was seriously wounded in the hand on the 22nd of July during the battle for Atlanta.
Spring Hill, although littered with army debris, was entirely empty.
www.battleoffranklin.com /history.html   (11819 words)

  
 TimesDispatch.com | Battle's energetic steps spring from 'fusion of influences'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Battle said this week that his work is based on so many different things that it is difficult for him to describe it.
Battle himself has been in town for the past seven weeks, teaching master classes in conjunction with the dance program at the Pine Camp Arts and Community Center and Richmond Ballet.
Battle then received a degree in dance from the Juilliard School, where he could not help but be surrounded by classical music.
www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767528082&path=!flair&s=1045855936229   (706 words)

  
 And Then A.P. Hill Came Up - Battle Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Chancellorsville - Major spring of 1863 battle in the Virginia "wilderness." Lee and Jackson's masterpiece.
This major battle was Hill's first in command of the Third Corps.
Bristoe Station - Fall of 1863 battle that was the low-point of A.P. Hill's career as a corps commander.
www.aphillcsa.com /reports.html   (422 words)

  
 The Battle of Hobkirk's Hill
A Letter on the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill, written by eyewitness Samuel Mathis in 1819, as edited by Rev. Millard H. Osborne, 1963, with slight editing by Charles B. Baxley (Republished by the Kershaw County Historical Society).
Here the hill is of very easy ascent and this spring and the Branch that runs from it contained the only water that was to be found near the American Troops.
Here the battle was equal or rather in our favor and only one word, a single word, and that only because it was spoken out of season turned the fate of the day.
southerncampaign.org /hobkirk/ps.html   (3925 words)

  
 Tennessee Civil War Battle Spring Hill American Civil War
Spring Hill was the prelude to the Battle of Franklin.
The first major battle in the Western theatre of the American Civil War, Shiloh came as a horrifying shock to both the American public and those in arms.
The climax of these events was the little-known Battle of Perryville, in which a greatly inferior Southern force under Braxton Bragg managed a draw against Don Carlos Buell's Union army but also effectively terminated the Confederate invasion of Kentucky.
americancivilwar.com /statepic/tn/tn035.html   (760 words)

  
 Spring Hill, Tenn., Battle Land Sold At Auction
By Ed Ballam SPRING HILL, Tenn. - Preservationists are pleased that a gentleman sympathetic to historic preservation efforts was successful bidder for Oaklawn Estate, an antebellum mansion and 83 acres around it.
The estate was once used by CSA Gen. John B. Hood as a field headquarters and played a pivotal role in the battles at Spring Hill and Franklin.
A controversy exists over th e importance of Spring Hill and even whether or not a battle was fought there.
www.civilwarnews.com /archive/articles/spring_hill.htm   (810 words)

  
 RCWRT News Letter for May 2000
"The Battles of Spring Hill and Franklin, Tennessee"
According to tradition, the bodies of six Confederate generals killed in the battle, including that of Patrick R. Cleburne, were laid out on the front porch of the Carter mansion after the battle.
Although Franklin is associated with Confederate defeat, that battle and the battle of Spring Hill a week earlier presented opportunities for Confederate victory in Middle Tennessee.
www.members.tripod.com /~g_cowardin/rcwrt/052000.htm   (1368 words)

  
 Stephen D. Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He served there with great credit, being wounded in the shoulder at the Battle of Champion Hill, until Pemberton's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant in July 1863, and on becoming a prisoner of war, he was immediately paroled and promoted to major general on August 3, 1863.
His regimental service had been chiefly with artillery, but he had generally worked with and at times commanded cavalry, and he was now assigned to command the troops of that arm in the Southwestern Theater (the Department of Mississippi, Alabama, West Tennessee, and East Louisiana).
Lee was himself wounded in the foot at the Battle of Spring Hill, but did not give up the command until an organized rearguard took over the post of danger.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_D._Lee   (732 words)

  
 Spring Hill College | News Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Spring Hill College President Gregory F. Lucey, S.J., visited the former mayor the night of his death and said Spring Hill College and the Mobile community have lost one of the most respected and most beloved leaders in the city’s history.
Spring Hill College alumnus and City Council Chairman Reggie Copeland ’50 was a young man and active in the Jaycees when that organization invited Langan to speak in the early 1950s.
It was during his years in the Legislature that Langan first made a name for himself as a progressive, by leading a losing battle to prevent passage of a law that required voters to "understand and explain any article in the Constitution." The law was intended to limit voting by fls.
www.shc.edu /news/index.php?action=show&story=517   (776 words)

  
 Spring Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Spring Hill Cheese Co. of Petaluma Produces and handmakes cheese entirely from the milk of pasturegrazed Jersey cows.
Spring Hill ISD Located in Longview, Texas, Spring Hill provides a learning community that is based on traditional values and progressive education.
Spring Hill Horse Rescue Dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of abused, neglected, and slaughterbound horses.
www.spring-spot.com /spring-hill_12.html   (900 words)

  
 History & Genealogy - Bibliography - Maury County
Luther, Edward T. Geology of the Spring Hill area, Spring Hill quadrangle, Maury and Williamson counties, TN.
G.E. History of the Spring Hill Presbyterian Church from 1844 to 1974.
Shellenberger, John K. The battle of Spring Hill, TN, Nov. 29, 1864: a refutation of the erroneous statements made by Captain Scofield in his paper entitled "The retreat from Pulaski to Nashville," by Capt. John K. Shellenberger.
www.state.tn.us /TSLA/history/bibliographies/bibmaury.htm   (1428 words)

  
 Spring Hill Campaign 1995
We had been told that the battle would last two-and-one-half hours, but in actuality it was only a bit over thirty minutes and was very disorganized.
The battleÞeld was a rolling stretch of green hills and valleys on the grounds of Oaklawn, a stately plantation home.
The Þrst hint of the battle was an exchange of riþe Þre between Federal and Confederate infantry in a gorge to the battery's left.
home.sprynet.com /~bbih/Spring_Hill_95.html   (593 words)

  
 Siege of Savannah
This battle was the second bloodiest battle of the Revolution.
When the battle ended at Spring Hill that October 9th morning, 333 British, French and American soldiers and 32 officers were dead; 377 lay wounded.
The movement of the wounded from Spring Hill to Bonaventure and Greenwich occurred without retaliation from the British.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Village/5369/Siege1.htm   (1256 words)

  
 Tennessee Civil War Sites - Page 2 - Dispatch Depot Message Board
Commemorates significant Civil War battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga in the fall of 1863.
Monument and interpretative markers for the Battle of Davis Bridge Oct. 5, 1862, which was the second largest Civil War battle fought in West Tennessee.
Elm Springs is a Greek Revival mansion built in 1837 by Maury County's master builder, Nathan Vaught.
civilwartalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=22180&page=2   (1992 words)

  
 Spring Hill Civil War site makes 'at risk' list - Monday, 02/28/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
SPRING HILL — The Spring Hill Battlefield is one of 15 national battlefields listed as ''at risk'' by the Civil War Preservation Trust.
According to historians, Spring Hill was the scene of a bloody battle that left hundreds of men killed, wounded or captured on Nov. 29, 1864, the day before the devastating Battle of Franklin.
Spring Hill is more often remembered in Civil War history for being the site of a terrible blunder.
www.tennessean.com /williamsonam/news/archives/05/01/66192071.shtml?Element_ID=66192071   (488 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1781   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
March 15 - American Revolutionary War: American General Nathanael Greene loses Battle of Guilford Court House to British.
September 6 - The British army attacks a fort in Groton, Connecticut which became known as the Battle of Groton Heights.
December 12 - French and British fleets fight in the Second Battle of Ushant.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /1781   (626 words)

  
 Civil War re-enactors take to the field - Monday, 10/20/03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
SPRING HILL — On Saturday and Sunday, Jeff Rector will march off to war — fighting in the Battle of Murfreesboro, just like his great-great-grandfather did back in the winter of 1862-1863.
But Rector will not have to travel very far — this battle, also known as the Battle of Stones River, will be fought on the grounds of historic Rippavilla Plantation, not five minutes from his Spring Hill home.
Before the battle an important determination is made: who lives and who dies.
www.tennessean.com /local/archives/03/10/41138463.shtml   (429 words)

  
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A newspaper account states that "He was with Thomas and Schofield in the campaign against Hood, the Confederate general, and took part in the battles of Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville.
In the battle of Spring Hill, young Wheeler was in the thickest of the fight.
His horse was shot under him, and, using the dead animal as a breastwork, he kept up the fight, narrowly escaping with his life." While in the swamps of Mississippi, Wheeler contracted a near fatal fever which left him with chronic rheumatism for the rest of his life.
www.wmm.org /history/wheeler_bio.html   (1067 words)

  
 History & Genealogy - Bibliography - Williamson County
Banks, Robert W. The Battle of Franklin, the bloodiest engagement of the war between the states.
Hay, Thomas R. The Battle of Spring Hill.
Shellenberger, John K. The Battle of Franklin, Nov. 30, 1864, a statement of the erroneous claims made by General Schofield and an exposition of the blunder which opened the battle.
www.tennessee.gov /tsla/history/bibliographies/bibwilliamson.htm   (1364 words)

  
 64th Ohio Infantry
The Regiment participated in the battles of Stone River and Chickamauga, sustaining a loss of nearly 200 men.
In the spring of 1864 it joined the Atlanta campaign, fighting all the way to Jonesboro, and followed Hood north to Nashville, taking active part in the battles of Franklin and Nashville.
Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.
www.ohiocivilwar.com /cw64.html   (843 words)

  
 Battle Summary: Franklin, TN
Description: Having lost a good opportunity at Spring Hill to hurt significantly the Union Army, Gen. John B. Hood marched in rapid pursuit of Maj. Gen.
Two Federal brigades holding a forward position gave way and retreated to the inner works, but their comrades ultimately held in a battle that caused frightening casualties.
When the battle ceased, after dark, six Confederate generals were dead or had mortal wounds.
www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/tn036.htm   (226 words)

  
 Union Army 4th Corps (Army of the Cumberland)
Although all of their fighting was not done while in the Fourth Corps, it was done either in it or in the two corps which were consolidated in order to form the Fourth.
Though newly-formed, it was composed of veteran brigades whose battle flags were scarred with the marks of hard fought fields; within this new command they were destined to wave amid the smoke and fire of many more.
In that battle the Confederates received the bloodiest repulse of the war, their men fighting with unusual desperation, while twelve of their generals were killed or wounded in their unsuccessful attack on the Union intrenchments.
www.civilwarhome.com /4thcorps(aoc).htm   (719 words)

  
 Tennessee Civil War Sites [Archive] - Dispatch Depot Message Board
On March 5 1863 during the battle of Thompsons Station young Alice Thompson was watching the Battle from the basement of "Homestead Manor" and saw the the color bearer of the 3rd Arkansas Infantry fall to the ground.
During the battle on November 30th, 1864, the fort served as a headquarters for General Schofield and held 8,500 soldiers along with 24 guns.
Shy’s Hill during the Battle of Nashville that Federal troops finally broke the Confederate line on the left flank, resulting in a massive Rebel retreat and a decisive Union victory.
civilwartalk.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-22180.html   (15626 words)

  
 TheHistoryNet | America's Civil War | Letters May 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Both the title "Spring Hill Squeaker" and the statement in the opening paragraph that the fight "could have been the Confederacy's most resounding victory since Chickamauga," in Robert Suhr's November 2002 article about the Battle of Spring Hill, overstate the South's ability to bring about a victory anywhere by that point in the war.
The troops of the Union IV and XXIII corps were veterans of hard fighting and would have given the Confederates a licking at Spring Hill, as they did at Franklin.
I was recently on holiday in America and visited Shiloh, Spring Hill, Franklin and Murfreesboro, as well as Kennesaw Mountain, Chickamauga and the cyclorama at Atlanta.
www.historynet.com /magazines/american_civil_war/3028331.html   (1115 words)

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