Here is a list of “must read” books when it comes to learning about the story of the Battle of Franklin and a few others for good measure.
Fiction
A Separate Country , by Robert Hicks.
Get to know CSA General John Bell after the war.
The Widow of the South , by Robert Hicks.
Learn the story of Carrie McGavock, the matriarch of Carnton plantation.
Non-Fiction
For Cause & For Country: a Study of the Affair at Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin , by Eric Jacobson.
The most up-to-date and accessible treatment of the Battle of Franklin.
The McGavock Confederate Cemetery: A Revised and Updated Compilation , by Eric Jacobson.
The best resource on print detailing the hundreds of Confederate soldiers buried in McGavock; all killed at the Battle of Franklin.
The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah:Spring Hill, Franklin & Nashville , by Wiley Sword.
Originally published in 1993 but still worth reading.
A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Major-General Patrick Cleburne , by Mauriel Phillips Josly.
A classic primer on CSA General Patrick Cleburne.
Invisible Hero: Patrick R. Cleburne , by Bruce H. Stewart, Jr.
The newest treatment on Cleburne by a member of the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Civil War Round Table.
John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence , by Richard M. McMurry.
Though dated (1992), considered to be a standard.
Williamson County : the Civil War Years Revealed Through Letters, Diaries & Memoirs , by Rick Warwick. 2006.
Co. Atych : A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War , by Sam Watkins.
The classic memoir of a Confederate soldier that almost seems like a ‘Forrest Gump’ kinda character.
Manhunt : the 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer , by James L. Swanson.
DVD and Film
The Battle of Franklin : Five Hours in the Valley of Death.
Wide Awake Films, 2005.
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