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Part of American Civil War

Battle of Nashville

December 15–16, 1864 · Nashville, Tennessee

Result Union victory

December 1864: Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army at Nashville, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force, in one of the largest victories won by the Union Army during the war.

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Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
John Schofield George H. Thomas Major General, Commander of the Union forces
John Bell Hood

Strength and losses

Strength
55,00049,773, 55,000
Casualties
3,0612,140
Killed
387387
Wounded
2,5582,562, 2,558
Missing
112112
Strength
23,20738,000
Casualties
4,462
Missing
4,462
Guns lost
51

Units

Army of the Cumberland IV Corps (Union Army) Army of the Ohio XXIII Corps (Union Army) Army of the Tennessee Union Army 122nd Illinois Infantry Regiment 5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment Mississippi River Squadron
Army of Tennessee Forrest's Cavalry Corps 1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion

Related events 1 degree away • 2 degrees away

1865
 
Battle of Franklin
 
Battle of Nashville
 
Second Battle of Fort Fisher

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