Can Anyone Recommend Good Books on Franklin and Hood's Tennesse Campaign?

[EricJacobson]

Suffice it to say that Franklin was not George D. Wagner's best day. It's really a shame. Wagner was a rock solid soldier who had fought like the devil in many places and had helped save the Federal army at Spring Hill. Spring Hill wasn't just a Confederate blunder. The resistance put up by some of Wagner's men and the blood they shed was enough to disjoint Cleburne's assault. From there everything fell apart. Wagner died in 1869, not even 40 years old, so I have always thought that perhaps he never got over what happened at Franklin.

[whitworth]

Here is a book available on the internet, written by a Confederate soldier who fought at Franklin and was captured, spending the rest of the war at Camp Douglas in Chicago.




http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/copley/copley.html


John M. Copley
A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn.; with Reminiscences of Camp Douglas.
Austin, Tex.: Eugene von Boeckmann, 1893.