Franklin-Nashville Campaign

The Black Flower The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield and was unable to break through or to prevent Schofield from a planned

Battle of Franklin General Schofield once said, “Hell had broke loose” (Cox 104). This battle of which he described is known as the bloodiest war ever. It all began when Hood lost the campaign. Hood tried to lure General Sherman into battle by interrupting his railroad supply. Along these railroad lines, there were many men set up there. So Sherman decided to take his chances by removing some of his men off of the railroad. This made Hood angry. This made him head to Tennessee (“The Battle of Franklin”)

Book Review McDonough, James L. War In Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994 22 November 2016 History-108 By: Jacob Ryan Frazier James Lee McDonough was born June 17, 1934, in Nashville, TN. Mr. McDonough is the son of James W. and Ora Lee McDonough. McDonough married Nancy Sharon Pinkston on May 28, 1957. McDonough and his wife Nancy have three children David, Sharon, Carla. Mr. McDonough received his bachelor degree at David Lipscomb

Hood started out by having Brown and Cleburne to attack Wagner’s line of 3000 men. Wagner’s men were guarded by fieldworks put up before the Confederates had arrived, but since they were made in haste, they quickly collapsed. Wagner’s line let out a single volley of rifle fire before turning around and retreating to the main line. The Confederates were on the heels of the fleeing Federals, so the defending Federals couldn’t fire in fear of hitting their own. This inability to shoot caused a weak

played a major role in the Civil Rights Movements. The three huge sit-ins were Greensboro North Carolina, Nashville sit-ins, and the Oklahoma sit-ins. The sit-ins that started it all were the Greensboro, North Carolina. The date of this sit-in is February 1, 1960. The time was at about noon, one o’clock. There was were four boys that started the sit-in. Their names were Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr, and David Richmond. The location was Greensboro, North Carolina. The boys didn’t

About the Nashville Region About Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. The city is also called the Nashville-Davidson city and is known as one of the 15 best cities in the United States for work and family. The area combines southern America charm with a contemporary urban metropolis. It is the centre of an urbanized area that also embraces parts of seven surrounding counties. The city of Nashville features the topography of rolling hills and

the same facilities as white people, there was segregation under the most horrific of circumstances which included the armed forces and blood banks. One of the more significant outcomes of the segregation laws was the ‘Keep the negro in his place’ campaign which led to common lynching’s before a black person was able to be trialled for a crime, many of the latter who were charged may have also been innocent but they were charged for being trouble makers, the lynching’s were commonly occurring to keep

And in 1915 the NAACP held a nationwide campaign against the film by D.W. Griffifth called The Birth of a Nation. This film was made to glorify the Ku Klux Klan. During the late 1960s black power began to arise and take a sudden increase. The Black Panthers and the Students for a Democratic

national park, was that the mountains were to become a national park. According to the site Gatlinburg inn,“The drive to create a national park became successful in the mid 1920’s most of the hard working supporters were based in Knoxville, Tennesee , Nashville and North Carolina”. The two groups had long been competitors over the location of the park, but they finally began working together for a park in the heart of the mountains, halfway between the two cities which stopped the arguing. This great idea

During the Civil War there were two remarkable men, Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Lincoln presided over the Union victory in the American Civil War as a 16th president of America while Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Civil War and before the war Forrest was a fortune amassed a planter and real estate investor and a slave trader. Both of them had a struggle childhood, grow up poor and received almost no formal education. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin on February