Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin by McDonough, James Lee

Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin

On a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to...
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Author: James Lee McDonough
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Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin by McDonough, James Lee

Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin

$38.20

Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin

$38.20
Author: James Lee McDonough
Format: Paperback
Language: English
On a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attack the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee. He gave the signal almost at dusk, and the Confederates rushed forward to utter devastation. This book describes the events and causes of the five-hour battle in gripping detail, particularly focusing on the reasons for such slaughter at a time when the outcome of the war had already been decided.

The genesis of the senseless tragedy, according to McDonough and Connelly, lay in the appointment of Hood to command the Army of Tennessee. It was his decision to throw a total force of some 20,000 men into an ill-advised frontal assault against the Union troops. The Confederates made their approach, without substantial artillery support, on a level of some two miles. Why did Hood select such a catastrophic strategy? The authors analyze his reasoning in full. Their vivid and moving narrative, with statements from eyewitnesses to the battle, make compelling reading for all Civil War buffs and historians.

Author: James Lee McDonough
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 06/30/1984
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780870493973

About the Author
James Lee McDonough is professor emeritus of history at Auburn University and the author of numerous titles on the Civil War, including Shiloh--In Hell Before Night and Stones River--Bloody Winter in Tennessee.

Thomas L. Connelly (1938-1991) was professor of history at the University of South Carolina and the author of Army of the Heartland, The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in Society, and Autumn of Glory, a two-volume history of the Army of Tennessee.

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