You are currently browsing the monthly archive for July 2008.
Building upon his suggestion of Franklin building a world-class Civil War museum, Dr. Chris Lossom encouraged the Franklin’s Charge audience to tell the story of race, class and gender.
Dr. Chris Losson, a Mississippian, author-teacher, challenged the audience at the 2008 Franklin’s Charge Symposium to build a world-class Civil War museum to tell the story of the Civil War and the Battle of Franklin from the middle Tennessee perspective.
Dr. Chris Losson, a guest speaker at the 2008 Franklin’s Charge Symposium, talks about how and why Civil War veterans’ groups were started after the war.
Dr. Chris Losson, an author and teacher, discusses the unimaginable task for soldier and civilian alike to process the death, suffering, and carnage after the Battle of Franklin.
This is an excerpt from a lecture Dr. Losson gave at the June 2008 Franklin’s Charge symposium in Franklin, TN
Dr. Chris Lossom, an author and teacher, ponders the effect the defeat at Franklin (30 Nov 1864) had on the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Nashville, two weeks later.
This is an excerpt from a lecture Dr. Lossom gave at the June 2008 Franklin’s Charge symposium in Franklin, TN
Dr. Chris Lossom, an author and teacher, talks about the harvest of carnage following the day after the Battle of Franklin (Dec 1st 1864).
This is an excerpt from a lecture Dr. Lossom gave at the June 2008 Franklin’s Charge symposium in Franklin, TN
Here’s a nice YouTube video about the 11th Tennessee Infantry.
Dr. Chris Losson, an author and teacher, provides a brief overview of the action from Spring Hill to Franklin in late November 1864.
This is an excerpt from a lecture Dr. Losson gave at the June 2008 Franklin’s Charge symposium in Franklin, TN. Listen why.
Video credit: 2008 Franklin’s Charge symposium
Notes from the Professor. We asked the Professor this question; “In your view, did Franklin/Nashville have a significant impact on the overall Civil War?”
Franklin and Nashville had a limited impact on the overall course of the war simply because they failed to change anything. The Union controlled Tennessee before the campaign and controlled it even more solidly afterward. Confederate chances for success in the campaign were, from the outset, rather desperate. The impact of the battles was 1) to increase the overall Confederate death toll of the war, and 2) to remove whatever latent threat to Union control of Tennessee might have been posed by Hood’s army lurking in north Alabama. For example, it seems unlikely that Schofield’s two corps would have been shifted to the east coast if Hood, with an as yet unbroken Army of Tennessee, were still lurking just outside the state, threatening to move north.
And yet, would that have changed the outcome of the war? No, Sherman could have accomplished his purpose without Schofield, and the overall outcome would have been the same. Perhaps the crowning irony of the battles of Franklin and Nashville is that they were fought at a time when the war was already decided. by late November 1864 it is difficult to imagine any train of events that could have led to Confederate victory.
Steven E. Woodworth is Professor of History at TCU in Texas.
Among his publications are Jefferson Davis and His Generals (University Press of Kansas, 1990), Davis and Lee at War (University Press of Kansas, 1995), Leadership and Command in the American Civil War (Savas Woodbury, 1996), The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Greenwood, 1996), A Deep Steady Thunder (McWhiney Foundation, 1996), Six Armies in Tennessee (1998), The Musick of the Mocking Birds, The Roar of the Cannon (University of Nebraska Press, 1998), The Art of Command in the Civil War (University of Nebraska Press, 1998), Civil War Generals in Defeat (University Press of Kansas, 1999), This Grand Spectacle (McWhiney Foundation, 1999), Chickamauga: A Battlefield Guide (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), No Band of Brothers (University of Missouri Press, 1999), The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Scholarly Resources, 2000), Cultures in Conflict (Greenwood, 2000), Grant’s Lieutenants from Cairo to Vicksburg (University Press of Kansas, 2001), While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (University Press of Kansas, 2001), Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2004), Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), and Shiloh: A Battlefield Guide (University of Nebraska Press, 2006).
Dr. Chris Losson, an author and teacher, explains how the Franklin action was a continuation of the Atlanta Campaign. This is an excerpt from a lecture Dr. Losson gave at the June 2008 Franklin’s Charge symposium in Franklin, TN. Listen why.
Video credit: 2008 Franklin’s Charge symposium
More: Was the potential of a Confederate capture of Nashville in 1864 likely?
Professor Steven Woodworth tackles that question.
Here is the layout of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery.
Lt. Gen. A.P. Stewart’s Corp
Loring’s Division: Maj. Gen. William W. Loring – 126
Scott’s Brigade: Brig Gen Thomas M. Scott – 15
27th Alabama – 4
35th Alabama – 2
49th Alabama – 0
55th Alabama – 3
57th Alabama – 2
12th Louisiana – 4
Featherston’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Featherston – 68
1st Mississippi – 6
3d Mississippi – 14
22d Mississippi – 8
31st Mississippi – 21
33d Mississippi – 10
40th Mississippi – 9
1st Mississippi Battalion – 0
Adams’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. John Adams – 43
6th Mississippi – 3
14th Mississippi – 10
15th Mississippi – 15
20th Mississippi – 10
23d Mississippi – 2
43d Mississippi – 3
Maj. Gen Edward C. Walthall’s Division – 90
Reynold’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Daniel H. Reynolds – 16
4th Arkansas – 1
9th Arkansas – 8
25th Arkansas – 0
1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) – 2
2d Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) – 3
Cantley’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Charles M. Shelley – 17
17th Alabama – 9
26th Alabama – 0
29th Alabama – 7
37th Mississippi – 1
Quarles’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. William A. Quarles – 57
Staff Officers – 1
1st Alabama – 19
42d Tennessee – 13
46th Tennessee – 6
48th Tennessee – not present at Franklin
49th Tennessee – 9
53d Tennessee – 2
55th Tennessee – 7
French’s Division: Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French – 117
Cockrell’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. F.M. Cockrell – 82
1st Missouri – 8
2nd Missouri – 13
3d Missouri – 15
4th Missouri – 5
5th Missouri – 12
6th Missouri – 7
1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) – 12
3d Missouri Cavalry Battalion (dismounted) – 10
Sears’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Claudius Sears – 34
4th Mississippi – 20
35th Mississippi – 4
36th Mississippi – 1
39th Mississippi – 7
46th Mississippi – 0
7th Mississippi Battalion – 2
Ector’s Brigade: Col. David Coleman – 1
39th North Carolina – 1
Ector’s also had the following regiments but they were all detached guarding the pontoon bridge and thus were not ‘engaged’ in the battle itself.
29th North Carolina
30th North Carolina
9th Texas
10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
14th Texas Cavarly (dismounted)
32d Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
Kolb’s Alabama Battery – 1
Maj. General Benjamin F. Cheatham’s Corps – 380
Cheatham’s Escort – 1
Cleburne’s Division: Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne – 174
Granbury’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Hiram B. Granbury
5th Confederate – 2
35th Tennessee
6th Texas – 7
7th Texas – 14
10th Texas – 12
15th Texas Cavalry – 3
17th Texas Cavalry – 0
18th Texas Cavalry – 1
24th Texas Cavalry – 6
25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) – 4
Nutt’s Louisana Cavalry (dismounted)
Govan’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Daniel C. Govan
3d Confederate – 0
1st Arkansas – 9
2d Arkansas – 4
5th Arkansas – 2
6th Arkansas – 15
7th Arkansas – 8
8th Arkansas – 4
13th Arkansas – 0
15th Arkansas – 0
19th Arkansas – 1
24th Arkansas – 0
Lowrey’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Mark P. Lowrey (Franklin)
3d Mississippi Battalion – 8
5th Mississippi – 19
8th Mississippi – 26
32d Mississippi – 11
16th Alabama – 6
33d Alabama – 8
45th Alabama – 4
Brown’s (Cheatham’s Old) Division: Maj. Gen. John C. Brown – 177
Gordon’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. George W. Gordon – 51
11th Tennessee – 9
12th Tennessee – 5
13th Tennessee – 5
29th Tennessee – 13
47th Tennessee – 8
51st Tennessee – 9
52nd Tennessee – 0
154th Tennessee -2
Gist’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist – 55
2d Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters – 0
8th Georgia Battalion – 5
46th Georgia – 9
65th Georgia – 4
16th South Carolina – 22
24th South Carolina – 15
Strahl’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Otho F. Strahl – 29
4th Tennessee – 8
5th Tennessee – 3
19th Tennessee – 6
24th Tennessee – 1
31st Tennessee – 5
33d Tennessee – 0
38th Tennessee – 3
41st Tennessee – 3
Carter’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. John C. Carter- 42
1st Tennessee – 1
4th Tennessee (provisional) – 0
6th Tennessee – 3
8th Tennessee – 6
9th Tennessee – 5
16th Tennessee – 13
27th Tennessee – 0
28th Tennessee – 5
50th Tennessee – 9
Bate’s Division: Maj. Gen. William B. Bate – 28
Staff Officers – 1
Jackson’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Henry R. Jackson – 14
1st Confederate – 5
1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters – 0
25th Georgia – 2
29th Georgia – 6
30th Georgia – 1
66th Georgia – 0
Smith’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Smith – 10
2d Tennessee – 1
10th Tennessee – 0
20th Tennessee – 1
37th Tennessee – 1
37th Georgia – 6
4th Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters – 1
Finley’s Brigade: Jesse J. Finley – 3
1st Florida – 1
3d Florida – 0
4th Florida – 0
6th Florida – 0
7th Florida – 2
1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted) – 0
Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee’s Corps – 55
Johnson’s Division: Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson – 52
Manigault’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Arthur M. Manigault – 6
24th Alabama – 0
28th Alabama – 0
34th Alabama – 1
10th South Carolina – 3
19th South Carolina – 2
Deas’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Zachariah C. Deas – 4
19th Alabama – 1
22d Alabama – 0
25th Alabama – 0
39th Alabama – 2
26th/50th Alabama
Brantley’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. William F. Brantley – 19
24th Mississippi – 6
27th Mississippi – 3
29th Mississippi – 2
30th Mississippi – 8
34th Mississippi – 0
Sharp’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Jacob H. Sharp – 23
7th Mississippi – 2
9th Mississippi – 2
10th Mississippi – 10
41st Mississippi – 8
44th Mississippi – 1
9th Battalion Mississippi Sharpshooters – 0
Clayton’s Division: Maj. Gen. Henry D. Clayton – 2
Gibson’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Randall L. Gibson – 2
1st Louisiana
4th Louisiana
13th Louisiana – 1
16th Louisiana
19th Louisiana – 1
20th Louisiana
25th Louisiana
30th Louisiana
4th Lousiana Battalion
14th Lousiana Battalion Sharpshooters
Stovall’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Marcellus A. Stovall
40th, 41st, 42d, 43d, 52d Georgia
Holtzclaw’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. James Holtzclaw
18th, 32d, 36th, 38th, 58th Alabama
Standford’s Mississippi Battery
Ma.j. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Cavalry Corps 11
CHALMER’s Division: Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers – 2
Rucker’s Brigade: Col. Edmund W. Rucker – 1
7th Alabama Cavalry
5th Miss Cavalry
7th Tenn Cavalry
12th Tenn Cavalry
14th Tenn Cavalry
15th Tenn Cavalry – 1 Cavalry
Forrest’s Regiment Tenn Cavalry
Biffle’s Brigade: Col. Jacob B. Biffle – 1
4th Tenn Cavalry – 1
10th Tenn Cavalry
BUFORD’s Division: Brig. Gen. Abraham Buford – 2
Bell’s Brigade: Col. Tyree H. Bell
2d, 19th, 20th, 21st Tenn Cavalry; Nixon’s Tenn Cavalry Regiment
Crossland’s Brigade: Col. Edward Crossland – 2
3d Kentucky Mounted Infantry – 1
7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry
8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry – 1
12th Kentucky Mounted Infantry
12th Kentucky Cavalry
Huey’s Kentucky Battalion
JACKSON’s Division: Brig. Gen. William H. Jackson – 7
Armstrong’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Frank C. Armstrong – 4
1st Miss Cavalry
2d Miss Cavalry
28th Miss Cavalry – 4
Ballentine’s Miss Regiment
Ross’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. Lawrence S. Ross – 3
3d Texas Cavalry – 3
5th Texas Cavalry
6th Texas Cavalry
9th Texas Cavalry
1st Texas Legion
ARTILLERY
Morton’s Tennessee Battery, Slocumb’s Louisiana Battery
The McGavock Confederate Cemetery is the largest privately held Confederate cemetery in the United States. It is located in Franklin, Tennessee. The nearly 1,500 Confederate soldiers buried there were casualties during the Battle of Franklin that took place November 30, 1864. 780 of the soldiers’ identities are known today, leaving 558 as unknown but not forgotten.
This blog is intended to honor the men and boys who lie buried at the McGavock Cemetery, at Carnton, in Franklin, Tennessee. We encourage everyone who is interested in the Battle of Franklin (November 30, 1864) to participate in this blog conversation by commenting and nurturing the discussion forward.
The hope and purpose of this blog is to uncover facts, information, stories, etc., that will shed more light on the Confederate soldiers who rest at McGavock cemetery. We hope to be able to better tell the individual, and collective, stories of these brave men who fought and the hundreds of men that fell on that fateful day.
Email us: tellinghistory[at]yahoo.com
Confederate flags are placed at the side of every marker at McGavock on the first Sunday in June during a memorial service. The ceremony is served by a local Boy Scout troop.
John and Carrie McGavock owned the Carnton plantation or farm in Franklin, Tennessee, at the time of the Battle of Franklin. Carnton guide, historian and best-selling author, Michelle Place, tells us about the McGavocks and their farm, circa 1860s.
The McGavock home – Carnton – in Franklin, Tennessee.
Recent Comments