Battle of Franklin

November 30, 1864 · Franklin, Tennessee

30 November 1864 battle in which Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee launched repeated frontal assaults on fortified Union positions under Maj. Gen. John Schofield, suffering one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederacy. Hood failed to prevent Schofield's planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville.

Union

Confederacy

Strength and losses

Strength
27,00027,939, 27,000
Casualties
2,326
Killed
189200, 189
Wounded
1,0331,033, 1,100, 1,033
Missing
1,1041,400, 1,104
Strength
26,89737,000
Casualties
6,261
Killed
1,7501,750
Wounded
3,8003,850
Missing
702700

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Battle of Franklin