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Let Us Die Like Men - The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (Paperback)
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Let Us Die Like Men - The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (Paperback)
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
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Loot Price R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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John Bell Hood had done his job too well. In the fall of 1864, the
commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee had harassed Federal
forces in north Georgia so badly that the Union commander, William
T. Sherman, decided to abandon his position. During his subsequent
"March to the Sea," Sherman's men lived off the land and made
Georgia howl. Rather than confront the larger Federal force
directly, Hood chose instead to strike northward into Tennessee.
There, he hoped to cripple the Federal supply infrastructure and
the Federal forces that still remained there-the Army of the
Cumberland under George Thomas. Hood hoped to defeat Thomas's army
in detail and force Sherman to come northward to the rescue. On
November 30, in a small country town called Franklin, Hood caught
part of Thomas's army outside of its stronghold of Nashville. But
what began as a promising opportunity for the outnumbered
Confederate army soon turned grim. "I do not like the looks of this
fight," one of Hood's subordinates said; "the enemy has an
excellent position and is well fortified." Hood was determined to
root the Federals out. "Well," said a Confederate officer, "if we
are to die, let us die like men." And thousands of them did. As
wave after murderous wave crashed against the Federal
fortifications, the Army of Tennessee shattered itself. It
eventually found victory-but at a cost so bloody and so chilling,
the name "Franklin" would ever after be synonymous with disaster.
Historian William Lee White, whose devotion to the Army of
Tennessee has taken him from the dense forests of northwest Georgia
to the gates of Atlanta and back into Tennessee, now pens the
penultimate chapter in the army's storied history in Let Us Die
Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864.
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