memoir · by a contemporary

Two Wars

Samuel Gibbs French (1818–1910)

Named on the page for Battle of Franklin (1864).

draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.

Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Project Gutenberg.

30 November 1864

Battle of Franklin (1864)

For the general reader of to-day, and especially for the survivors of the Confederate Army, Gen. French's autobiography will possess peculiar interest. The writer has enjoyed the opportunity of reading the advance sheets of the book only through the account of the battle of Allatoona, which was fought October 5, 1864, but as Gen. French participated in the campaign of Gen. Hood up to its predestined disaster at Nashville, the autobiography will be read with more than usual interest by students of the ill-starred march into Tennessee and the battles of Franklin and Nashville.

CHAPTER XVII.
Return from Allatoona--Hood's Deportment--Cross the Coosa 285 River--Devastation around Rome--Rome Burned--Garrison of Resaca Refuses to Surrender--Capture of the Seventeenth Iowa Regiment at Tilton--Dalton Taken--Dug Gap--Dinner of Roasting Ears--Supper--Captured Officers are Jolly Good Fellows--Gadsden--Encampment at Mrs. Sansom's--Her Daughter a Guide for Gen. Forrest when He Captured Gen. Streight--Cross the Black Warrior River and Sand Mountains--Decatur--Some Fighting at Decatur--Gen. Beauregard with Hood--Beautiful Valley of the Tennessee made Desolate by War--Tuscumbia--Dreary March to Columbia, Rain and Snow--Stewart's and Cheatham's Corps Cross Duck River _en Route_ to Spring Hill--Hood Slept--Schofield Passed By--Pursue Schofield to Franklin--Battle of Franklin--Incidents--Remarkable Order for a Second Assault at Night--Losses in My Two Brigades--Exchange of Prisoners Stopped

CHAPTER XVII.
Return from Allatoona--Hood's Deportment--Cross the Coosa River--Devastation around Rome--Rome Burned--Garrison of Resaca Refuses to Surrender--Capture of the Seventeenth Iowa Regiment at Tilton--Dalton Taken--Dug Gap--Dinner of Roasting Ears--Supper--Captured Officers are Jolly Good Fellows--Gadsden--Encampment at Mrs. Sansom's--Her Daughter a Guide for Gen. Forrest when He Captured Gen. Streight--Cross the Black Warrior River and Sand Mountains--Decatur--Some Fighting at Decatur--Gen. Beauregard with Hood--Beautiful Valley of the Tennessee made Desolate by War--Tuscumbia--Dreary March to Columbia, Rain and Snow--Stewart's and Cheatham's Corps Cross Duck River _en Route_ to Spring Hill--Hood Slept--Schofield Passed By--Pursue Schofield to Franklin--Battle of Franklin--Incidents--Remarkable Order for a Second Assault at Night--Losses in My Two Brigades--Exchange of Prisoners Stopped.

CHAPTER XVII.
[Illustration: BATTLE OF FRANKLIN.]

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