Nashville Maps for Overall Creek, Anthony's Hill, Etc.

[Luke Freet]

Reading up on the Franklin-Nashville Campaign, I've struggled to understand the events surrounding the smaller actions. The only battle maps I've found have been for Spring Hill, Franklin & Nashville. I've seen a few maps for the rearguard actions of Lee's Corps on December 17th (courtesy of Stuart Salling'ss book on Gibson's Louisiana Brigade). I've seen nothing for the Battle of Overall Creek/Third Murfreesboro; or on any of Forrest's rearguard fights. Richland Creek, Anthony's Hill, Sugar Creek. No battlemaps I've been able to recall.

Anthony's Hill in particular is irksome. I'm doing a piece on J. A. Smith's Georgia Brigade, Cleburne's Division, during the Tennessee Campaign, and Anthony's Hill is their only significant combat action. And I have nothing in terms of maps on it.

Would anyone kindly tell me if there's maps out there for these obscure battles?

 

[Barnesville Blues]

I got two battle maps for this engagement years ago when I first visited the Stones River Battlefield. They appear to be hand drawn and are not the best but show the route union troops took going to meet the Confederates. On the Confederate part, it shows a couple of different positions but doesn't break them down past Brigade Level.

 

[Luke Freet]

I got two battle maps for this engagement years ago when I first visited the Stones River Battlefield. They appear to be hand drawn and are not the best but show the route union troops took going to meet the Confederates. On the Confederate part, it shows a couple of different positions but doesn't break them down past Brigade Level.

in the case of the latter, makes sense as the brigades are no larger than battalions by this stage.

 

[gjpratt]

The only map of Anthony's Hill I know of is in Gen. John Scales' book on the Campaigns and Battles of Forrest. It is a good one.

In the early 1960s Ed Bearss wrote an NPS monograph that includes Overall Creek/Third Murfreesboro. It is available for download on the Stones River NPS site. The hand drawn maps are probably the same ones @Barnesville Blues mentions. Scales' book has a series of modern maps of the actual Battle of the Cedars.

https://npshistory.com/publications/stri/fortress-rosecrans-history.pdf (This is another publication that deserves updating and republishing — ahem, @Militarybooks. And I would volunteer to do the annotating and updating)

 

[Barnesville Blues]

The only map of Anthony's Hill I know of is in Gen. John Scales' book on the Campaigns and Battles of Forrest. It is a good one.

In the early 1960s Ed Bearss wrote an NPS monograph that includes Overall Creek/Third Murfreesboro. It is available for download on the Stones River NPS site. The hand drawn maps are probably the same ones @Barnesville Blues mentions. Scales' book has a series of modern maps of the actual Battle of the Cedars.

https://npshistory.com/publications/stri/fortress-rosecrans-history.pdf (This is another publication that deserves updating and republishing — ahem, @Militarybooks. And I would volunteer to do the annotating and updating)

Yes, those maps at the end of this document are the ones I have. This is the only map of this engagement I have ever seen. My Boys the Barnesville Blues, Company B, 4th Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters were there and took quiet a few casualties. Most of the casualties are confirmed through pension data that I have collected.

 

[gjpratt]

I believe Hal Jespersen may be working on turning the Bearss maps into contemporary cartography. Stay tuned.