Show b v I In front n practically 0 open p e D 8 11 f k About 2 o'clock la In lathe a e 0 01 ran Confederates the afternoon 0 c a ro the l e on 01 In fn battle array Thy They swooped do down don n on 00 two exposed I Yv z gadea ot of fAt d ell 1 v I 1 s Ion I o n u n I 1 n n- n nt i L rot e b t r e n c h c d 0 over over- overA v e r- r r whelmed them and on A took y Then thy they on to tho meat ments with yells ot of nr f y TIme after time Ume l they on to the 1 very works More than one color beor- beor r 4 yr c r w er w a shot down onIG on the Som IG Em i ot of the Union officer r f- f ff f n t tS S tr r 1 s 1 r l lu u Congress Asked o Preserve DaHl 01 or Ci Civil iI War t 1 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN SHERMANy y and South as ns nil itil 1 good Americans know fought side by side under I I Old Glory In the time Span Span- ish American American war there here thereby hereby by gh shins In notice to nil the world that the animosities animosities ties of ot the Civil ll war had bee been n forgotten Time fhe World war tightened the bonds And ADd both sides are proud of the courage displayed ed In the Civil war warend end and the feats of arms accomplished This Is as It should b be for 01 history can show no more thrilling valor alor no more de desperate conflict This pride finds expression In a movement mo for the preservation of bat bat- battlefields bat battlefields as ns national historical land land- landmarks landmarks marks Chickamauga and Chatta Chatta- Chattanooga Chattanooga Chattanooga In Georgia and Tennessee An- An Antietam Antietam An In Maryland land Shiloh In Tennes Tennes- Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee see Gett Gettysburg In Pennsylvania lenns and In Mississippi have been made national military parks Now t congress Is asked to add to the list the battlefields of Franklin In Ten Ten- Tennessee Tennessee and Petersburg In Virginia Representative e W C Salmon of Ten Ten- Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Introduced the Franklin bill he said eald ald at nt the request of th tiles es from rom Ohio and citizens of ot hi his state and district Ohio was especial especial- especially ly Interested because of or the lie fact act that the division of the Union army which sun suffered the greatest lo loss was largely from that state Here are some of the things Representative e Salmon said about the Rattle Hattie of Franklin Ills It la Is known that the Battle BatUe of oC Frank Frank- Franklin Franklin Franklin lin was w s the llio most mOt bloody and the fiercest est it st battle batlle of oC the Civil war It Il was In Inthis Inthis Inthis this battle t that th at t more mure men were killed In proportion to the Iho number engaged then In any other during the mho entire lour four year Thirteen generals and moro than forty colonels were killed or wounded Tho The southern army comman commanded ed b by General Hood and his hI assisting com com- commanders commanders commanders manders was vas composed of the bravest and best Saxon Anglo-Saxon blood of the I South numbering among Its officers who were wele wounded or slain suh Bunt men menas menas menas as Generals Centrals Cleburne Carter Strahl Cockrell rell Gordon Cordon Cranberry Granberry Walthall and John Adams Adam men at the th head of oC their lh th lr commands marched to their death at the mho command of oC their superior officer with wh a II chivalric bravery ery unsurpassed In the an annals nab of oC history It In la said paid that there about sIxty thousand men engaged In this battle which lasted only four or hours end nd at Its close clos there lay dead on the thel t eld either killed or wounded something like liko ten thousand men One of oC our most beloved belove l members on the Democratic side Ide Gen Cen Isaac R 11 was ono one of tho the chief actors In this battle It was at this battle that the tir fortunes of oC the Confederacy turned d It WAS the beginning of oC the th surrender r at Appomattox Mr lr Irv Salmon pot got Into the lie Congressional i I Record the lie following excerpt flom General Sherwood's work Mem lem ones ories of the Hie War And lid what a night that was After the battle battlo the dead lay around the from river to river out out- out out-ildo Ide alde Iho the breastworks breastwork In a wider lino IIno ruin river to river river-a a wider and thicker lay line lay the mho Confederate dead d Amid the tho smoke amok and grimo of oC battle and under tho ho dun clouds of oC smoke almost I hiding the tho stars tan the tho Ulue lilue and andt t lit Gray Cray looked tho mho samo camo I stood on the rho parapet Just before midnIght lid and yaw saw I aw all that could be bo seen Been I saw and heard all that my 01 eyes could see tr or my rent soul could contemplate la In such tuch an awful environment It was wa a ix to appal the tho stoutest heart the he wounded shivering In the chilled 1 November emLer aIr the rending heart-rending cries or of the th desperately wounded and the of oC the dying tilled filled me m with Ith J J- J Ji roc 1 t jt- jt i y ii J I mJ 1 Ii r yu ti tK rJ 7 r I fi 1 fir M r 1 1 SI t i l r I j r jv J o o f Ul ur anguish that no language can describe Front Irom that hour to this I have havo hated wa war Mr Ir Salmon also got Into Inlo the nn excerpt from om a II novel Doni by br Trotwood Ioor Moore a n southern author Its It's title Is The Bishop ishop of ot Cottontown The excerpt It was the middle of the afternoon of oC tho the last day clay of oC November ember 1864 and also tho the last day of oC many a gal gal- gallant gallant gal gallant lant when life life when Hoods Hood's tired army marched over o the th brow of oC tho high highridge ridge of oC hills that looked down lown on the th town of oC Franklin In front of oC which from railroad to river behind a long semIcIrcular breastwork breast lay ork work lay Schofields Schofield's determined the army army the men In gray on the hill and the men In blue In mho tho valley valle- listened to the band playing Just Before DeCoro the tir Cattle Battle Mother Gen Gen- General General Gen General eral Hood said to General Stuart We W Va will mako make the fight tho the battle was now raging all alt around the line There was a succession of oC yells yell a rattle Io a shock and a roar as brigade after atter e struck the tho breastworks only to bo be bo hurled back again or melt and anddie die dlo away awny In the trenches amid Clear around tho the line of oC breastworks It rode at Intervals like liko a Io magazine of oC powder flashing fashing before It explodes then the roar and upheaval followed and anon b by the another another the ground round was soon shingled l with dead men In gray while down In the ditches or hug hugging tho bloody sides of the breastworks right under the guns thousands more moro fortun fortun- fortunate fortunate fortunate ate or daring than their comrades lay thrusting and being thrust shooting and being bellS shot the llio sun un had not set yet ret the black smoke of ot battle had set It before is ms S time again time again and again an and l again from 4 till tin midnight eight butchering the hours hours the heart of oC the South was hurled against those bas b 9 lions ions of oC steel and flame fiame only to bo pierced with ball bait and bayonet The beautiful town of Franklin is In Inthe the lie historic bluegrass section of mid mid- middle middle middle InI I dle Tennessee on the Jackson high high- highway highway highway way about midway between the lie home ot of President Polk Poll at Columbia and the hI historic home of President Andrew Jackson at Hermitage Time The Jackson hIIm ny Is the main road between Nashville the lie capital of Tennessee and the now famous amous Muscle Shoals government hydroelectric PO power potter er plant The cross In white In the picture shows the exact location of ot the fiercest fiercest est fighting lighting The view is to the north of Cheathams Cheatham's headquarters The Battle of Franklin was ought fought 1 November on 30 ISO ISO-I A And 11 here Is where It fits in General Sherman preparing for his March larch to the Sea only only Grant knew of his hits plans led plans I Union forces through Tennessee Into Georgia General Johnson in command of the Confederate forces s made u spirited resistance and battles were fought ou ht at tit Dalton May 7 May Ia I 12 and at Kenesaw Mountain i June 27 14 H- H General Hood replacing replacing I ing Johnson marched Into Tennessee threatening the Northwest with In- In Invasion In Invasion aslon and hoping to divert crt ert Sherman who had occupied Atlanta September Hood fought at nt Franklin and then went ou on to Nashville where General Thomas defeated him him December 15 Sherman In the meantime was March In lag ing through Georgia and J captured Savannah Sa December 21 The advance guard of the Union forces under General Cox arrived nt at In the morning after a night march from Iron Sprin Spring Hili and Immedi immedi- immediately Immediately threw up slight lIght breastworks Time The Columbia pike bisected the works The rh T 7 F 7 CJ C f C A Y s a CR od JH jT- jT ams reported as many ns fiS thirteen assaults Trio Tho fiercest fighting lighting was close to the Columbia pike Here fell most of the Confederate generals owing to the fact that Stewarts Stewart's and Chentham's commands became Intermingled here Hera Adams of ot Stewarts Stewart's corps was killed and Cockrell and Quarles wounded Close b by were killed Cleburne Grim Grim- berry Gran-berry berry Strahl and Gist of COrI corps and Brown was wis wounded Gen GenG G W Gordon was made prisoner In- In Inside Inside In Inside side the lie works Colonel Stewart Stew of the Sixty illinoIs tried to save the life Ilfe of Gen John Adams of ot Mississippi Stewart called to his men mn not to fire tire on him but It was too late Adams rode rolle his horse over oyer the ditch to the top of the parapet undertook to grasp tho the Flog Flag from rom the hands hand of the sergeant color color and fell horse and all shot by the guard color guard On the Union side the tho fourth Forty Forty I sustained the heaviest loss loss- loss t 34 31 killed and D wounded and missing I In the second Seventy Illinois adjoin adJoin- adJoinIng adjoining ing every field officer o was wounded and the entire color guard of ot nine was shot down three Thirty-three Confederate colors were here ere captured the Confederates also carried oft off many Union colors color when then they withdrew toward evening Durin During the night General Schofield under orders from General Thomas withdrew to 1 Nashville General Sherwood who ho was In his sent seat in the tho house as os representative from rom the Ninth OhIo district was col- col colonel colonel col colonel onel of the Ele Eleventh Ohio Infantry In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Battle of ot Franklin He lIe was breveted eted brigadier general of volun volun- volunteers volunteers February 27 1 for or gallant and meritorious services ser at ot Franl and amid Nashville Nash The only other Ci ii war veteran In congress Is la Maj laJ Charles Manly lanly Stedman of North Caro Caro- Carolina lina Ilna Ills His re regiment was the Forty Forty- fourth Forty fourth North orth Carolina Infantry C S SA A General Sherwood was born In New York state slate Au August 13 1835 1535 He has served er nine terms in congress and has been editor lawyer lawer secretary or of state probate judge and en soldier soldier en enlisting listing as ns a private three days das after aftertime time the fall of Fort Sumter while mayor of Toledo |