The Battle of Franklin is mired in Lost Cause nostalgia. Following the fall of Atlanta in early September 1864, Confederate general John Bell Hood led an army of 30,000 men into Tennessee, hoping to divert Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s attention by threatening his supply base at Nashville. The move failed. Sherman dispatche…
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