Confederate Redoubt No. Hood’s Confederate Army as it occupied the countryside south of Nashville in December 1. These small earthen forts were commonly built early in the War to give the .
The forts became a common feature of trench works later during the War. On the first day of the Battle of Nashville, December 1. U. S. Army attacked all five forts. This redoubt is one of the last remaining sites of the Battle of Nashville and has been preserved, enhanced, and interpreted by the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society. Above: “Awaiting the Inevitable,” a depiction of Redoubt No. BONPS President Philip Duer.
Battle of Nashville, 15-16 December 1864, battle that virtually destroyed the Confederate army that had invaded Tennessee under General Hood. The Battle in the Boro started about 10 years ago with only 32 teams. It has grown to nearly 500 and has outgrown the City of Murfreesboro. Nashville Ballet is the largest professional ballet company in Tennessee and presents classical ballets as well as contemporary works.
Redoubt No. 1 was featured on the Summer 2. Hallowed Ground, the magazine of the Civil War Preservation Trust.
The CWPT held their annual conference in Nashville in 2. December 1. 6, 1.
- Was the battle of Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864, the decisive battle of the Civil War? Similarly, was the Tennessee campaign of that fall – of which the three.
- The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the.
Shy’s Hill. Below is President Philip Duer’s commentary on the event: A Message from Philip Duer, President of BONPSDecember 1. As I ascended Shy’s hill this morning to place our memorial wreath below the flags flying at the summit, I was struck by the thought that this day was the same 1. But today was not the same, it was different; I could ascend the hill with no thoughts of harm save for slipping on some wet leaves, and I was comfortable in my waterproof jacket and boots.
I had no fear of being shot, wounded or maimed. I calmly walked up the hill, not rushing in desperation to reach the top. No one was trying to kill me nor I them. I was climbing the hill in peace. I had no grief nor emotional trauma to deal with from the horror of Franklin. I had no reason to keep my head down. I had no hunger pangs, thoughts of home, nor whether I could survive not only the cold but other men trying to take my life.
I didn’t have to press my body against the earthworks. I could stand in safety and view the panorama from Shy’s Hill in contemplation as to what it must have been like. I could see the hills where Union artillery fired hundreds of shells. I could see the lines of infantry and cavalry forming up for the assault. I could try and picture the scene as men fell and died on both sides. But in reality, I could not know what it was like, I could not perceive the horror of watching friends die, of the fear and panic, of waiting for the dreaded inevitable conclusion or of the jubilation of victory. No, today is not the same save in one respect and that has been that every year since the battle people have remembered those who fought and gave their lives for what they believed in as they saw it, which in the end made us all Americans.
It is inconceivable today that the mistakes made to cause such a war will ever happen again. It is for that fact that we remember their sacrifices. I can leave that hill in peace as I found it. Philip Duer. President.
Battle Of Franklin: Civil War Sites – Carnton, Carter House, Lotz House. By Gerald D. Schofield. Confederate: John Bell Hood.
Soldiers Engaged. Union Army: 2. 7,0. Confederate Army: 2. Outcome. Union Victory. Casualties. Union: 2,3.
Confederate: 6,2. In Franklin, Tennessee, a small community about 2.
Nashville, three buildings stand as monuments to five of the bloodiest hours in all of American history. Two witnessed the epicenter of fighting during the Battle of Franklin on November 3.
The third, a Southern mansion southeast of town, was a field hospital; the bodies of four Confederate generals were laid on its porch until they could be taken for burial. The battle occurred when Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, frustrated that his Confederate Army of Tennessee had let a large Union force escape from Columbia the night before, ordered an all- out frontal assault against the Union fieldworks at Franklin, despite the protests of his subordinate commanders. The Southerners advanced across an open field, enfiladed in places by artillery in Fort Granger across the Harpeth River. Many of their Union opponents were armed with repeaters. Yet, they nearly broke through near the center of the Union line, only to be repulsed. Some 1. 0,0. 00 Americans died in the five- hour battle, the vast majority of them Confederates. Eyewitness reports say that near the fieldworks some men died standing up, the dead bodies stacked around them too tightly to permit them to fall.
More generals were killed than at any other battle of the war. During the night, the Federals withdrew to Nashville where the fortifications were second only to those around Washington, D. C. Hood pursued and, on December 1. Union troops under Major General George H. Thomas attacked the outnumbered Confederates, shattering what remained of their army and forcing it to withdraw to Tupelo, Mississippi.
It is often said that the Battle of Nashville was won at Franklin. Today, the town of Franklin is a poster- child example of Main Street restoration of a historic downtown, its streets lined with boutiques and crowded with tourists. But just a few hundred yards beyond its charming shops stand two witnesses to the carnage that once occurred there. The Carter House 1. Columbia Avenue Franklin, TN 3.
Bullet holes are still plainly visible in the walls of the farm office building and the brick home where Fountain Branch Carter, his family and numerous neighbors huddled in the basement while the battle raged overhead. An interpretive center with artifacts and a film about the Battle of Franklin is located behind this 1. The Lotz House 1. Columbia Avenue Franklin, TN 3. Just 1. 10 steps from Carter House is the Lotz House, built in 1. German immigrant Johann Albert Lotz, a master carpenter and a piano maker. His home served as his “show house” to demonstrate his carpentry work to potential clients.
During the battle he and his family were among those taking shelter in the basement of the brick Carter home. A cannonball crashed through the roof of Lotz’s house and a second- story bedroom before landing and rolling on the first floor, leaving a charred indentation that is still visible. The Lotz House today houses what Wendell Garrett at The Magazine Antiques called, “by far the finest private collection of American Victorian Furniture in the Southeast.”Carnton Plantation 1. Carnton Lane Franklin, TN 3. A few short miles south and east of Franklin, Carnton Plantation stood near where some Confederate units formed up for the assault.
As the battle wore on, wounded, combat- shocked men drifted back to the mansion. The lady of the house, Carrie Mc.
Gavock, opened her home as a hospital. Bloodstains are still visible in places on it floors. Mc. Gavock and her husband, John, gave two acres near their home as a burial ground for nearly 1,5. Carrie Mc. Gavock and Carnton were the inspiration for Robert Hicks’s New York Times bestselling novel, Widow of the South.
Hours of operation: (Carnton Plantation, The Carter House and Lotz House) Monday – Saturday 9 a. Closed most major holidays. For more information, see www. Click here for information on the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial and History. Net’s Partner Page of the Sesquicentennial. Read more articles about the battle of Nashville. Sponsored Content.