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# Five Tragic Hours Battle Of Franklin Paperback – June 30, 1984

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    Very good, but not even handed, or handled
  

*by T***H on Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2020*

This was a very good handling of an epic battle which had the misfortune of not occurring within 150 miles of Washington - thus never receiving it's due.  The tactics and action were described in sufficient detail and chronology to allow a full understanding of how the attack(s) and defense fit into the overall battle results.  Upon finishing the book, though, I was left with two unfortunate concerns.  The first was that this book carried on the traditions of "The Lost Cause" - admittedly I may be wrong, but I was left with the impression that the Yankees didn't play fair because they had Spensers' and abatis, and were entrenched.  Besides, they outnumbered the rebels- depending on who you read, this may not be true.  As described, one of those Confederate attacks where the rebels lost, rather than the Union soldiers won - in actuality, where one Union soldier was actually equal to at least three confederates.  The second concern is that the text occasional seemed to lose focus - as if the authors had stopped writing in the middle of a narrative, then picked it up again later with a different outline in mind.  As an example, five different attacks were referred to, and the first - the center with Brown - was described.  But the remaining four were - What?  Is Cleburne's the second or a continuation of the attack in the center?  I'm thinking Bate on the left, may be one, but are all the activities on the right, Stewart's, lumped as another, or are they separate attacks?  Is Lee later on the left considered a separate attack?  Was the initial attack on Wagner itself considered a separate attack - one of the 5?  As I said, the authors told me their plan, started implementing it, but then lost focus and forgot to tell me which bullet-point they were on.  Nitpicking, I know, but cost them a star.  However, I bought it, enjoyed it, and would recommend it to anyone researching the Franklin-Nashville Campaign.b

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    The Final Undoing of the Army of Tennessee
  

*by S***O on Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2013*

After abandoning Atlanta to the Union forces under General William Tecumseh Sherman,  General John Bell Hood took his Army of Tennessee northward with the goal of taking Nashville and penetrating the area of the Ohio River. General John McAllister Schofield's job was to delay Hood's advance up the Columbia-Nashville Pike, thereby allowing General George H. Thomas to strengthen and concentrate the Union forces with reinforcements at Nashville.On November 30,1864, in a battle that lasted a mere 5 hours, from 4:00 p.m.to 9:00 p.m., General John Bell Hood launched one of the largest Confederate headlong, frontal assaults of the Civil War, at the Battle of Franklin, in Middle Tennessee, with even more troops attacking than Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. The slaughter and carnage to the Confederate troops had effectively removed the once great Army of Tennessee as a fighting force for the remainder of the war. Another Confederate defeat followed at the Battle of Nashville, and Hood would soon offer his resignation, with General Richard Taylor replacing him.Hood's army suffered a loss of 7,000 men at the Battle of Franklin, including 1,750 dead and 4,500 wounded. A huge number of Confederate officers met their deaths at Franklin, including Generals Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (the "Stonewall Jackson of the West"), States Rights Gist, Hiram Granbury, Otho Strahl, and John Adams. A staggering fifty-four regimental leaders in Cheatham's and Stewart's corps had been killed, wounded, or captured. The Union forces benefited by the advantage of numbers, terrain, impregnable defensive earthworks protected and strengthened by abatis and artillery, and General John Casement's repeating rifles.Hood arguably had a slim opportunity for victory at Franklin when Generals Patrick Cleburne and John C. Brown penetrated the Union entrenchments through the gap at the Columbia Pike near the Carter House. The opportunity came to naught, however, due to lack of coordinated efforts by General Cheatham's left wing and General Stewart's right wing forces, which consisted of disjointed and isolated attacks. Not only did the Confederate corps of Cheatham and Stewart fail to execute a simultaneous frontal assault on the enemy line, but Hood began the attack precipitously, failing to wait for General Stephen D. Lee's corps to arrive at the battle scene before beginning the grand assault. As a result, Hood's frontal assault lacked the full weight of the Army of Tennessee's infantry and artillery, which could have been used to pound Schofield's line of defense and support Cleburne's and Brown's breakthrough at the Columbia Pike.Authors, Professor James Lee McDonough and the late Thomas L. Connelly, put together a fine analysis of the Middle Tennessee Campaign, including a chapter on the inexplicable affair at Spring Hill. They provided arguments and conclusions, not infequently the subject of hot debate, as to why Hood decided to launch that suicidal, massive, frontal attack at Franklin in the first place. A little over 200 pages, the book was a very informative read on the Middle Tennessee Campaign in the fall of 1864.

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    Great read!
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2022*

Very well done. I highly recommend this book about an important American Civil War battle. A must read for anyone interested in the Western Theater of the War.

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