Franklin-Nashville Campaign

The Franklin-Nashville Campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee Campaign, was a series of battles fought in the fall of 1864 in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of Tennessee under General John Bell Hood drove north from Atlanta, threatening William T. Sherman's lines of communications and central Tennessee, but Union forces under General George H. Thomas defeated Hood decisively at Nashville, Tennessee.

Opposing forces

The Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, at 39,000 men, constituted the second-largest remaining army of the Confederacy, ranking in strength only after Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The army consisted of the corps of Major General Benjamin F. Cheatham, Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, and Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart, and cavalry forces under Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Related Topics:
Confederate - Army of Tennessee - Lieutenant General - John Bell Hood - Robert E. Lee - Army of Northern Virginia - Major General - Benjamin F. Cheatham - Stephen D. Lee - Alexander P. Stewart - Nathan Bedford Forrest

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At the beginning of the campaign, Union forces designated the Military Division of the Mississippi were commanded by Major General William T. Sherman in Atlanta. Sherman's personal involvement in the campaign would last only until the end of October. Reporting to Sherman was the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas (the Rock of Chickamauga), the force previously commanded by William S. Rosecrans and then Sherman himself. Thomas would be the principal Union commander after Sherman's departure. Subordinate to him was the Army of the Ohio, commanded by Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield. It consisted of 34,000 men, made up of the IV Corps under Maj. Gen. David S. Stanley, the XXIII Corps under Brigadier General Jacob D. Cox, and a Cavalry Corps commanded by Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson. Thomas had an additional 26,000 men at Nashville and scattered around his department.

Related Topics:
William T. Sherman - Army of the Cumberland - George H. Thomas - Chickamauga - William S. Rosecrans - Army of the Ohio - John M. Schofield - IV Corps - David S. Stanley - XXIII Corps - Brigadier General - Jacob D. Cox - James H. Wilson

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