This series of videos has been absolutely brilliant the best you’ve done quality congratulations quality viewing great guest and of course the main man Gary Adelman

Hood in the Nashville Campaign was like a Poker Player who finds out he had the best hand, but folded, and couldn't use it. Then he thought he'd won the next hand but was beaten at the River then went full tilt and was beaten by a Nut Flush Draw destroying his stack.

Really enjoying these. I always was under the impression that Franklin was Hood punishing his commanders.

I enjoy both you guys talking civil war events. Great narrators of this important history. Thank you men. Salutes... Also i had visited franklin awhile back. I was awestruck! The land reclamation all i could do was weep in the Carter garden and trembled with joy!!!

I walked the very ground they're standing on at 4:15pm on November 29, 2021. It was a clear day just like on 11/29/1864 and sunset was just a few minutes away. Thank you ABT and BOFT.

Another good day of Civil War history. Thanks everybody.

I would LOVE if you would do a Peninsular Campaign series. A much neglected time and battles.

Very informative. You guys are doing a great job with this tour. I appreciate it greatly.

Very good job! I have been there before. Lots of history. Thanks !

Thanks

Hindsight is 20-20 but how can you not block the road when you're that close?

These fascinating Battlefield Trust videos not only inform but also inspire thought. For example, Gen. Parker Hill's explanation of the concept of the "commander's estimate" as used by Nathen Forrest before and during the Battle of Brice's Cross-Roads was still in my mind as I watched what happened on the road to Franklin: It seems to me that Hood had: M. A clear "Campaign Mission", but lacked the military intelligence input to devise a "Mission for the day". E. Hood didn't have clear (or any?) reports on Enemy (U.S.) movements and intentions, nor of the condition of the Troops on both sides. T. Tired Confederates encamped and rested, tired Federals marched all night. T. & W. Hood and his commanders, including Forrest, seem not to have considered the terrain, the road to Franklin, and the darkness, which facilitated the Federals' retreat. T. By attending to none of the foregoing, the Confederates made just enough time available to the Federals to complete their mission, which was to retreat so as to avoid getting cut off from their main force at Nashville. Remarks: Forrest as Confederate cavalry commander must have had the primary responsibility for finding not just the location but also the intention and direction of the Federal forces, and for taking action on the spot (which he did so well at Brice's Cross-roads), as well as keeping Hood and other commanders informed. Perhaps Forrest had been promoted above his level of competence. Or was the entire Confederate Army of Tennessee just unlucky, both on the day, and right through the entire civil war?

General Hood said in his autobiography that General Cleburne disobeyed his order. This is the most debated and unresolved issues of the Western Confederate Army.

No hat? I feel naked. Gary, get your hat.

Housing is needed but not on sacred ground.

Stones River in Murfreesboro is WILD. It's like a mini- Devil's Den. Amazing rock formations, and strategic cover and concealment. I had a park ranger explain the entire battle to me there. Amazing. The Confederates stormed across an open field there coming out of the treeline with only fixed bayonets and STICKS (Tree branches). Bloody mess. They call it the slaughter pen because a few of the Union soldiers said the blood running through the rock formations there reminded them of the slaughter houses back in Ohio.

Gary's hat? What happened to Gary's hat?!?!

So, Spring Hill is to Franklin, what McPherson Ridge was to Gettysburg. If Hood had been Buford, he could have been Buford on steroids because he wouldn’t have needed a ‘Reynolds’ coming up to reenforce. What a miss!! Anyway, let’s speculate. Let’s say Hood wins at Franklin. At this point in the war, would it truly have made a difference? Would there have not been an Appomattox if Hood could had done what he hoped for at Franklin?

They could have shot into the road maybe bring up some artillery, of course they didn't know who or how many were there. I doubt they had planned for a major night action and I assumed they didn't want to develop some plan while the sun set. Forcing a night action with 1/3 of the troop would not be my first major action of a campaign you been developing since October. The marched to Frankin the next day, arrived 3-4 hours before dark, probably spent 2 of those hours organizing arriving troops just like hers, but this time they did decide to go fight in the dark what would have been the difference waiting overnight, I suspect the difference in their minds was the previous night's march. You have so much more control of the situation with 8 hours of fighting vs 1 or 2 hours followed by a melees of confusion.

Wasn't General Hood wounded or injured ?

when the confederates had a bad day, they really had a bad day. Six Generals saw their last last dawn here.

Could have bagged a whole Army ? Wow ! 🤨

Was Forrest responsible for Reconnaissance ? Or doing his own thing ? 🤔

I like that he calls the US Army by its proper name.

Where is Franklin on the map? I love you guys, but I don't know who is Confederate or Union nor where the locations are on the maps you show. You are doing an awesome job, but the dummies like me are lost when you show a map.

Sound Sleepers ? 🤫

The Confederates should have stayed off the corn whiskey that night.

The one time Forrest failed

Would be good to have a simpler, less busy, Google map to generally show what happened here.

Gary's frustrated? Is he turning into a neo-Confederate now?