Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Chapter 1 Some Fighting and Some Hard Marching 1
Chapter 2 A Needless Effusion of Blood: The Fight at Allatoona Pass 11
Chapter 3 Immediate and Unconditional Surrender: The Return to Resaca and Dalton 23
Chapter 4 A Slight Demonstration: The Campaign through North Alabama 33
Chapter 5 Tennessee: A Grave or a Free Home: The March to Franklin Begins 41
Chapter 6 The Race to Spring Hill 47
Chapter 7 At All Hazards: The Union Forces Arrive and Deploy at Franklin 57
Chapter 8 We Will Make the Fight: Confederate Forces Arrive and Deploy 69
Chapter 9 It Seemed to Me that the Air was All Red and Blue: The Missouri Brigade Attacks 79
Chapter 10 Run Against a Chinese Wall: Walthall and Loring 87
Chapter 11 The Ferocity of Demons: Cleburne and Brown 99
Chapter 12 Upon Us Like Tigers: Bate's Attack 117
Chapter 13 Moving into the Very Door of Hell: Johnson's Night Attack 123
Chapter 14 All Along the Line 131
Conclusion 139
Touring the Battlefield 145
Appendix A Confederate Artillery at Franklin 157
Appendix B The Lost Banners 163
Appendix C Preservation at Franklin 165
Appendix D Memories of Franklin 169
Order of Battle: The Battle of Franklin 172
Suggested Reading 178
About the Author 180
List of Maps: Maps Hal Jespersen
Hood's Tennessee Campaign 2
Allatoona Pass 12
Columbia to Spring Hill 48
Initial Union Line 58
Franklin 64
Franklin Battlefield 76
Missouri Brigade Attacks 80
Walthall and Loring Attack 88
Cleburne and Brown Attack 100
Bate Attacks 118
Johnson Attacks 124
Franklin Driving Tour 144
