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|   The Battle of Spring Hill-The Great Escape - Spring Hill TN
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites By 3 p.m. on November 29, 1864, Union Gen. John M. Schofield realized that his command was in great danger. The bulk of his army was posted near Columbia, Tennessee, while Confederates Gen. John Bell Hood’s troops were north of him. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/27/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
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| Thompson's Station-Prelude to Franklin - Thompson's Station TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On November 29, 1864, just one day before the Battle of Franklin, an action occurred here at Thompson’s Station that alarmed Union Gen. John M. Schofield’s army as it marched north toward Nashville from Spring Hill. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 07/05/2020 last visited: 09/24/2021 |
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| Road to Nashville-Columbia Artillery Duel - Columbia TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On November 26, 1864, as Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood’s army approached Columbia, he sent Gen. Stephen D. Lee’s corps to “demonstrate heavily” (feign an attack) against the Federal defenses on the south side of the town. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/18/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view galleryNE20.9 km | Carnton Plantation Caught in the Middle - Franklin TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Randal McGavock, a prominent Nashville resident and a friend of Andrew Jackson, built Carnton in 1826. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/26/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view galleryNE20.9 km | McGavock Confederate Cemetery-Labor of Devotion - Franklin TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In the spring of 1866, the bodies of Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Franklin were exhumed from their temporary graves and reburied here, on this two-acre plot adjacent to Carnton, home of John and Carrie McGavock. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/26/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view galleryNE20.9 km | Carnton Plantation in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Carnton Plantation, built circa 1815, served a major role in the Battle of Franklin, TN in 1864. posted by:  LSUMonica location: Tennessee date approved: 04/06/2006 last visited: 05/17/2023 |
 view galleryNE20.9 km | McGavock Confederate Cemetery in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites McGavock Confederate Cemetery is the largest private Confederate cemetery in the nation. posted by: LSUMonica location: Tennessee date approved: 04/06/2006 last visited: 04/17/2015 |
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| Attack on the Union Left-Into a Withering Fire - Franklin TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On the afternoon of November 30, 1864, elements of Confederate Gen. William W. Loring’s division rushed across the ground in front of you during the Battle of Franklin to attack the Federal left flank here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/26/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view galleryN21.7 km | The Carter House in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Built in 1830, the Carter House was the location of the 1864 Battle of Franklin. Serving as a federal command post before the battle and as a hospital after, the house and grounds are today preserved on 10 acres. In this evening battle lasting only five hours, more Confederate soldiers, including 13 generals, were lost than in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.
posted by: LSUMonica location: Tennessee date approved: 04/06/2006 last visited: 08/18/2018 |
 view galleryN21.9 km | Lotz House Museum in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Tthe historic house built in 1858 by Johann Albert Lotz which became a prominent landmark on the field of the battle of Franklin. posted by: LSUMonica location: Tennessee date approved: 04/06/2006 last visited: 06/14/2018 |
 view galleryN22.5 km | Field Hospitals-Caring for the Wounded - Franklin TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The aftermath of the Battle of Franklin almost overwhelmed the population of fewer than 1,000 as the residents adapted many of the buildings in town to care for about 4,000 Union and Confederate wounded posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/22/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view galleryN22.7 km | Fort Granger-Franklin Stronghold - Franklin in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman’s supply lines posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/22/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view galleryN22.9 km | City of Franklin in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The City of Franklin has numerous Civil War related sites. The city served as a battleground on two seperate occasions in the Civil War. posted by: LSUMonica location: Tennessee date approved: 04/06/2006 last visited: 05/16/2023 |
 view galleryN22.9 km | Union Headquarters-Planning for Battle - Franklin TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This small building (constructed in 1817 by Dr. Daniel McPhail) was the medical office of Dr. Daniel Cliffe, who lived nearby, in 1864. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/22/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view gallerySW24.3 km | Delaying Forrest "...a decided stand" - Columbia TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Suddenly, the Union horsemen encountered the advance elements of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry, riding ahead of the main army, near Henryville. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 05/18/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view gallerySW31.9 km | The Bigby Greys-Story of Service - Mount Pleasant TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Here on the square, on April 20, 1861, a hundred local men under Capt. Daniel F. Wade were sworn into Confederate service as the Bigby Greys. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/18/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view galleryNE41.8 km | Travellers Rest "The proudest moment of my life" - Nashville TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On December 2, 1864, two days after the bloody Battle of Franklin, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood established his headquarters here at Travellers Rest, the home of John Overton. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/24/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view galleryN42.5 km | War on the Home Front-Belle Meade and Union Occupation - Nashville TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites William Giles Harding, the owner of Belle Meade Plantation, was an ardent Confederate supporter who provided thousands of dollars to help arm Tennessee’s Confederate forces. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/24/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view galleryN42.5 km | Belle Meade Plantation-The Battle of Nashville - Nashville TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The family of William G. Harding, the owner of Belle Meade Plantation, had a front-row seat to the Battle of Nashville on December 15-16, 1864. Confederate Gen. James R. Chalmers, who served under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, had his headquarters inside the house. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/24/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view galleryN42.5 km | Belle Meade Plantation-Change of Ownership - Nashville TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Confederate Gen. William Hicks “Billy” Jackson (1835–1903), who acquired Belle Meade Plantation after the war, served with distinction throughout the Western Theater of the Civil War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/24/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view galleryN43.5 km | Connection To Johnsonville-U.S. Military Railroad - Kingston Springs TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In November 1863, Federal troops occupied Kingston Springs to serve as headquarters for the supervisors of the U.S. Military Railroad Construction Corps. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/07/2020 last visited: 10/06/2021 |
 view gallerySW46.5 km | Fouche Springs Engagement-"A perfect stampede" - Summertown TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The engagement of Fouche Springs, located near this crossroads in present-day Summertown, was some of the earliest significant fighting of the Hood Campaign. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 07/03/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view galleryNE48 km | Dewitt Smith Jobe-Confederate Scout - Smyrna TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Rutherford County native DeWitt Smith Jobe was a member of Capt. Henry B. Shaw’s Coleman’s Scouts, a Confederate cavalry unit and spy network that served the Army of Tennessee. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/26/2020 last visited: 09/24/2021 |
 view galleryN48.4 km | Fort Negley - Nashville, Tennessee in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Historic partially restored Civil War fort now historical park in Nashville, Tennessee listed on the Tennessee Civil War Trail. posted by:  BruceS location: Tennessee date approved: 02/18/2013 last visited: 07/25/2022 |
 view galleryNE49.6 km | Sam Davis Home-Confederate Martyr - Smyrna TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This is the Sam Davis Home, one of Tennessee’s most significant Confederate memorial properties. Samuel (“Sam”) Davis, born here in 1842, enlisted in the Rutherford Rifles (Co. I, 1st Tennessee Infantry) in 1861 and fought in western Virginia. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 06/26/2020 last visited: 09/24/2021 |
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