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Can Anyone Recommend Good Books on Franklin and Hood's Tennesse Campaign?
I'm looking for any recommendations on books concerning Hood's Fall/Winter '64 Tennessee Campaign and also the Battle of Franklin. Any help would be appreciated. By books I mean of course tolerably affordable books.
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I recommend For Cause and County. Actually Mr. Jacobson posts right here on this board and I obtained a signed copy of the book. He actually will answer an e-mail at the address posted below.
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Send $33.70 per copy (includes shipping) to:
Eric A. Jacobson
1022 Lexington Farms Dr.
Spring Hill, TN 37174
Questions for the Author? E-mail to jacobson@swlink.net
I've spent considerable time studying Eric's book and have recommended it on several occasions. His work is better documented and researched (he had some help) than most of the predecessors. I live nearby Franklin, as does he, and have walked that battlefield many times. As a reference, his material is first rate. This book focuses on Springhill and Franklin primarily. For the rest of the story, I'd also suggest Wiley Sword's THAT DEVIL FORREST or a library borrow of Forrest's own war history on which he consulted, written just after the war by Pryor. Perhaps more than 50 books are currently on the shelves concerning this period and location. Here, I suspect, you have three of the better ones.
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5 Tragic Hours, by McDonough, Shrouds of Glory by Winston Groom(author of Forrest Gump) and The Confederacy's Last Hurrah by Wiley Sword. McDonough and Groom are easy light reading. This is Groom's first non-fiction book. Sword's book is the best of the lot.
Ditto on Jacobson and Sword. I'd also recommend an obscure book by Jamie Gillum on said battle, The Battle of Spring Hill. Have no idea how you'd get a copy of that other than through the Carter House Museum in Franklin.
ole
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Much appreciated the replies, gentlemen. I want the book to send to a friend. This summer I had the pleasure to meet up with an old friend of ours, aphillbilly, while the old lady and I happened to be in Nashville. Tommy was going through a rough patch at the time, having lost his mother just some little time before, but starting to come around. We spent a good part of a day at Franklin, touring the Carter house and environs, the Carnton Plantation and Graveyard, and the Pizza Hut (Cleburne fell.) If I can figure out how to post pictures (never have) I'd put up one of us in front of the Confederate Memorial in the Town Square. It was quite an enjoyable day, Tommy's grandfather fought in this battle, on the Union side (28th Kentucky) and we found out where that unit was positioned (right in the thick of it- out front- Wagner's Brigade- it turns out.) They were armed with repeaters and so had an annihilating effect on the oncoming Rebs, but were overrun, being forward of the Union line. Luckily, Tommy's GF survived. We both found we would like to know more about this battle- we had both a good running knowledge of the campaign and battle, but when you want more in depth knowledge, you ask for help. So again, thanks, mates. I will move on this promptly with the recommmendations you have given me. greatest regards, ed
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Am so glad to hear that Tommy is still with us. If the gift is for him, Jacobson's ought to be your choice. Tommy likely has or has read all the others.
Wagner's division sans Opdyke's brigade? Not a fortuitous place to be. THAT would be a story!
ole
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Never thought to compare the two. Thanks. Sickles' made more sense. I have yet to understand Wagner's motivation.
ole
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Finally a 'pro' Sickles statement coming out of you. Thank you ! hehe (just joking of course).
The only thing Wagner's position seems to do is to ensure that the Confederate assault hits the Federal line at different times. The fight in front of the Carter House does seem to be exacerbated because the Union soldiers there have to hold their fire to let Wagner come stumbling back and through. It also (I think) makes the Confederates start the assault from ****her away. That's about the best I have for Wagner, honestly he should be in line with the rest of the army, the whole 'mutually supporting' concept works well for me here!
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