![]() ![]() The Union withdrew to Nashville, where another bloody foray would be staged before the Rebels retreated. In places the dead were found standing up, waist deep in corpses. Often called the bloodiest single day in the history of American combat, the five-hour slug-fest ended with more than 9,000 casualties lying on the field, among them five Confederate generals. ![]() Hood marched his rag-tag but still powerful Army of Tennessee in a circuitous route out of Georgia into Tennessee, where, against the advice of his staff, he threw his troops haphazardly against the well-fortified battlements surrounding the tiny town of Franklin. John Bell Hood's attempt to redeem his shame over the loss of Atlanta. ![]() The battle took place in late fall 1864 and marked Confederate Gen. The Battle of Franklin forms the background. ![]()
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