Loring’s Division (Lt. Gen. A.P. Stewart’s Corps) lost (killed) 334 men at Franklin. Gen Scott lost 126. Featherston lost 68, and Adams lost 43.
Featherston’s Brigade consisted of:
- 1st Battalion, Mississippi Sharpshooters ( 0 killed )
- 1st MS Infantry ( 6 killed)
- 3rd MS ( 14 killed )
- 22nd MS ( 8 killed )
- 31st MS ( 21 killed)
- 33rd MS ( 10 killed )
- 40th MS ( 9 killed )
Loring’s Division marched across what is now known as the Eastern Flank part of the Franklin battlefield, traversing the McGavock farm. What these men hardly knew was that they literally walked across ground upon which so many of them would be buried following the battle.
The 33rd Mississippi Infantry, Company K, lost at least six known, and perhaps several more buried in now unknown plots.
Here are pictures of the markers of identified 33rd MS, Company K men buried at McGavock.
Regarding Shaw, Jacobson writes: ” About ‘fifteen paces from the works’ Lt. Henry Clay Shaw saw the color bearer of the 33rd Mississippi fall with the flag. Shaw picked it up and scrambled to the parapet. As he tried to shove the staff into the dirt Shaw was killed, ‘his body falling in the trench, the colors falling in the works.”
See: Jacobson (For Cause: p. 322. Also: OR 45, pt. 1, p. 322, 331, 338, 430.
As you can see from the map below, Featherston’s men faced the Hoosier boys from Stiles’s Brigade on the far left Union flank.
Historian Eric Jacobson talks about Loring’s advance at the Battle of Franklin.
My great grandfather Lycurgus Ashley Stevens and his 3 brothers were in Company B of the 22nd Mississippi along with a couple of cousins. One of the brothers Thomas V Stevens was listed as wounded and captured in the battle. Family information said that one of the brothers of Thomas was with him when Thomas told him to “take care of Mother” (Catherine Stevens was a widow) It is believed that Thomas died shortly afterward. I believe that Thomas is buried in an unmarked grave at Carnton.
Gary Stevens
Redford Michigan
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Andy
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