The Battle of Franklin (Tennessee): Major General John M. Schofield, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Ohio, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Tennessee, commanded by brevet General John Bell Hood.
NOTE: While both armies were evenly matched at 27,000, the compulsory Union suffered less than a ten percent casualty rate, while the Confederacy suffered a casualty rate of nearly 25%, including the deaths of five Confederate generals.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 302.
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
Second Battle of Franklin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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