Show grotins in front was ram of F tiki practically about 2 open in va tile the afternoon the confederates on federates c came a m e on in battle array army they swooped down on two exposed abrl brigades brigade of wagners magners Wag ners JA J A A A 11 v I 1 slon s 1 0 n u n 1 nt n tr r benched e n c li e d over 0 v e r whelmed them thein and took prisoners A 7 then th they ey swarmed ined on to the ments menta with yells of victory time after time they came on to the very works more afore than one color I 1 bearer ear wits shot edwn on the lie parapet S rome 0 m 0 of tile lie union pl P l n ilo V ID congress asked to preserve ie 18 of civil war 7 by JOHN I 1 DICKINSON SHERMAN aud and youth south nn is a nil good brood americans k know n v fought side by side under old glory in ill tile the span ish asli war thereby giving notice to nil all tho the world that the ties of the civil war had bud b been e e n forgotten the world war tightened tile the bonds and both sides are proud of I 1 the he courage displayed it lu the civil war and the 7 tents feats ot of arms accomplished this Is as li it should be for history can show n no 0 moc valor no mote de desperate sperato canfil conflict alt TIN expression in n a movement to the pi of but blit as national ant lonal historical landmarks ni arKs chickamauga find and chattanooga in geor georgia gla and tennessee an in n maryland shiloh in tennes ee gettysburg lit III penn pennsylvania syl varila and vicksburg in mississippi have been ninde nati national mial military parks now contreas con greas Is ili asked to add to the list the battlefields of franklin la in tennessee and petersburg in virginia representative W C salmon of tennessee introduced the franklin bill he be said fit at the request of representatives from ohio and citizens of ills hla state and district ohio was especially interested bemuse because of tile the fact that the division of tile the union army which suffered puff ered the greatest loss wits largely from that stute state here are some of the things representative salmon suld about tile tie battle of franklin it la is kno known w n that the battle of 0 franklin frankila was the most blood find and th the 0 alerc aut battle of the civit war it wes waa in this e battle battie that more men were killed in Dro Dortlon to tho iho num number b er engaged it than han in any other during the entire four years thirteen generals and more thun than forty colonell col colu onela nels were killed or wounded the southern army commanded by general hood and hla his assisting commanders was waa composed of the bravest and best beat anglo saxon blood of the south bouth numbering among its officers who were wounded or slain such men 1 11 a 1 generals genera leburne cleburne carter strahl 1 cockrell larell lk rell G gordon lardon granberry cranberry Walt walthall ball and john adams adama these men at the head of their commands marched to their death at the command of their superior perlor Bu officer with a chivalric bravery unsurpassed in the tha annals dannals of history it id said that there were about sl sixty ty inrid thou thousand nd men engaged in this thin battle which la lasted ted only four or five hours and at it its close there lay dead on the battlefield either killed or wounded something like ton ten thousand men one of our most beloved members on the he democratic side gen isaac it II sherwood erwood Bh was one of the chief actors in this batt battle le it t was wag a at it this battle fortunes hat the fortunes of the confederacy turned it was the beginning of the surrender at appomattox mr salmon got into the congressional record the following excerpt from f om general sherwoode She work memories of the war and what a night that was after the thai battle the tha dead lay around the breastworks from river to out side ids the breastworks in n a wider line from river to rivera river a wider and thicker line lay the confederate dead amid the smoke and ana grime of battle and under the dun clouds cloudia of smoke almost hiding the tare stars the blue and the gray looked the same ame I 1 stood on an the parit parapet pot just before midnight and nd saw all that bould be seen I 1 saw and na heard board all that tny iny eyes could still ee or my rent soul bould contemplate in such an awful environment it was a spectacle to appall appal the tou test heart the wounded in the chilled november Ho vember air tho the heartrending heart hirt rending orles cries of tho the woun wounded dod and the prayers of the dom filled vio me with eh anguish that no language can describe from that hour to this I 1 have hated war sir air etilmon Siu linon also got into tile lie record nn in excerpt excel pt fron from u novel ly by trotwood moore it southern gou thern ati thor it s title Is tile the bishop of otton town he e excerpt x cerat it was waa the middle of the afternoon af 0 the last day ot of november 1884 1864 and also the last day ol of many a kal gal lint life when hood aai tired army marched arched ni over the brow of the high ridge of hills that looked down on the town of franklin in front of which from railroad to river behind a long semicircular brevot work lay schofield 8 determined army the men in gray bray on the hill an and d the men in blue in the valley listened to io th the e band playing just before the battle mother general hood said to general stuart we w will ill in make s ke the fight the tha battle was now rag raging ing all around the line there was a succession of yells yella a rattle EL a shock and a roar as brigade after brigade struck the breastworks only to be hurled back again or melt and die away in the trenches amid clear around the line of breastworks it rode ode at intervals like a magazine of powder flashing before it explodes then the roar and upheaval followed and anon by another the ground was soon shingled with dead men in gray while down in the ditches or hugging the bloody sides of the breastworks right under the guns thousands more fortunate or daring than their comrades lay thrusting i hru sting and being thrust shooting and n d being shot the tha sun aun had not set yet the black smoke of battle had set met it before ls lie time again akala and again and again from 4 till midnight eight butchering hours the heart of the south bouth wad hurled burled against I 1 those bastions of steel and flame only to be P pierced merced with ball and bayonet the beautiful town of franklin Is in tile the historic bluegrass section of middle middie tennessee on oil the jackson highway about ini midway dwity between the lie home of I resident president polk at columbia und and the hiR historic home of Preal president dent andrew jackson at hermitage the jackson bigbie ay Is the main road between nashville the capital of tennessee anil the now famous muscle shoals government hydroelectric power plant the alie trosa cross in white in the shows the exact location of the fler fier est fighting the view Is to tile the north of cheathams headquarters the dattle battle of franklin was fought november SO 1804 1864 and here Is 18 where here it fits in general sherman preparing for ills bis march to the sea only grant knew of his plans led anon forces through tennessee into georgia general johnson Jo linson in command of tile the confederate forces made a spirited resistance and battles were fought at dalton may 7 Ite silea may 12 find and at kenesaw mountain june 1427 14 27 general hood flood replacing johnson Jo hoson marched into tennessee threatening the northwest with invasion and hoping to divert sherman who had occupied atlanta september 3 2 hood fought at franklin and then went on oa to nashville where general thomas defeated him december 15 in the meantime wab waa marching through gli georgia and captured savannah december 21 the advance guard of the union forces forcen under general cox arrived at franklin in ID the morning after a night march from spring hill and immediately threw up slight alight breastworks the columbia pike bleeden ur the wor corkill kill TUG the 4 t N as P R reported us its binany its thirteen the tier fiercest lighting fighting wilis 1 I so s to tile tho columbia Colum blit pike here fell alost of tile the generals sene rala owing olna to ill tile the fact that hint stewarts and cornin command ands became beannie here adams of stewarts tB corps was vms killed and cockrell and quarles wounded close by were killed cleburne Cle hurne granberry alil and gist of af Che athanis corps and brown was wounded wound pd gen 0 W gordon was made prisoner inside the works colonel stewart of the sixty fifth illinois tried to aau tile the life of gen john adaris of mississippi stewart called to his men not to ore fire on him blin but it was too late adalis rode lila ills horse over or the ditch to the lie top of the parapet undertook to grasp tile the flag from the lie hands of the color sergeant U und nd fell horse and nil all shot by the color guard on the union side tile the forty fourth missouri sustained tile the hea lest loss 1088 34 killed and wounded and missing ints in the seventy second illinois every field officer wits wounded and tile lie entire color guard of nine wais wag shot down thirty three confederate colors were wera captured the confederates also curried carried off many union colors when they withdrew toward evening during the night general under orders from froin general Thoi Th ornus withdrew to nashville general sherwood erwood Bh mho hns in hla his seat in the house as representative from the lie ninth ohio district was colonel of tile the eleventh ahlo infantry in the battle of franklin lie he wn breveted brigadier geri generel erid of volunteers february 27 1805 for gall gallant fiat and meritorious services at Ite saca franklin franki in and nashville the only other oilier civil war veteran in congress la 19 maj charles manly stedman of north carolina ilia his regiment was vos the lie forty fourth north carolina infantry C 9 8 A general sherwood was born in new york state august 13 1835 he has served nine terms in congress and has been editor lawyer secretary of state probate judge find and soldier enlisting as a private three days titter after the fall of fort sumter while mayor of toledo |