Battle of Franklin II
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Battle of Franklin II
The Second Battle of Franklin (more popularly known simply as The Battle of Franklin) was fought at
Franklin, Tennessee
, on
November 30
,
1864
, 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
. Although the
Union
Army of the Ohio
, commanded by
Maj. Gen.
John M. Schofield
, left the field after the battle, the Confederate Army suffered devastating losses in its unsuccessful frontal assaults against the Union defenders, sometimes called the "
Pickett's Charge
of the West." A further loss at the subsequent
Battle of Nashville
in December marked the end of Confederate
Lt. Gen.
John Bell Hood
's
Army of Tennessee
as a fighting force.
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