Following the fall of Atlanta in September of 1864, Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood hoped to lure Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman into Tennessee. Hood would move north into Tennessee and try to defeat portions of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas’s army before they could concentrate and then seize the important manufacturing and supply center of Nashville. Following a missed opportunity at SpringHill, Hood would following the Union army to Franklin Tennessee. The Confederate assault included six infantry divisions containing eighteen brigades with 100 regiments numbering almost 20,000 men, sometimes called the "Pickett's Charge of the West", resulted in devastating losses to the men and the leadership of the Army of Tennessee. 14 Confederate generals (6 killed, 7 wounded, and 1 captured) and 55 regimental commanders became casualties. The Battle of Franklin was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The Army of Tennessee retreated with barely half the men with which it had begun the short offensive, and was effectively destroyed as a fighting force for the remainder of the war.
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