Tag: battle of franklin

  • The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 1

    Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of […]

  • DE ARAGON, The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon – Part 13

    Author’s note: De Aragon’s division rejoin’s Hoods army which moves north toward Dalton, Ga and then into Alabama before moving into Tennessee and fighting the enemy at Franklin. The Battle of Franklin   In the dark of night, French’s Division marched twelve miles through rain and mud to reach New Hope Church at dawn on October 6. […]