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The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign [3] [4] that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War.
The Franklin–Nashville campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, [5] [6] in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War.
Shiloh, 1862: The First Great and Terrible Battle of the Civil War (2011) Jones, James B., ed. Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts (2011) 286 pp; Lepa, Jack H. The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862–1863 (2007) McCaslin, Richard B., ed. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War (2006)
Parkers Crossroads Civil War Battlefield. The land upon which the Battle of Parker’s Crossroads took place is now traversed east and west by Interstate 40 and north and south by Tennessee State Route 22, located midway between Memphis and Nashville.
The national battlefield was established through the efforts of both private individuals, the Stones River Battlefield and Park Association, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (which became part of CSX Transportation through several mergers), and a 1927 act of Congress authorizing a national military park under the jurisdiction of the War Department.
The Second Battle of Franklin in 1864, part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign in the Western Theater, was the most notable engagement of this area during the Civil War. Today, Fort Granger's remaining earthworks are preserved within a city park that is located near the center of Franklin.
Preserved areas of the Franklin battlefield around the Union defensive line 2010 Civil War reenactment, Carter House. The Carter House, which stands today and is open to visitors, was located at the center of the Union position. The site covers about 15 acres (61,000 m 2). The house and outbuildings still show hundreds of bullet holes.
Fort Negley was a fortification built by Union troops after the capture of Nashville, Tennessee during the American Civil War, located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the city center. It was the largest inland fort built in the United States during the war. [1]