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PVT William Adams
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Rank / Rate PVT War of Service Civil Date of birth No Date Place of birth / home town Family Members High School Enlistment Date Branch Union Army Service Number Unit / Ship / duty Station Co. D, 111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry [ https://www.angelfire.com/oh4/civwar/14thohio/111ovi.html ] Date of Casuality Nov 16, 1864 Cause of Death or Status KIA Place of Incident Battle of Franklin Place of Burial or Memorial Stones River National Cemetery PLOT I-3520 Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, Awards  Links to More Information |
| Franklin, TN | Nov 30, 1864 The scale of the Confederate charge at Franklin rivaled that of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. The action resulted in a disastrous defeat for the South and failed to prevent the Union army from advancing to Nashville. HOW IT ENDED Union victory. The devastating defeat of Gen. John Bell Hood’s Confederate troops in an ill-fated charge at Franklin, resulted in the loss of more than 6,000 Confederates, along with six generals and many other top commanders. The fighting force of the South’s Army of Tennessee was severely diminished, but Hood continued to chase victorious Union general John M. Schofield to Nashville. IN CONTEXT After the fall of Atlanta on September 1, 1864, Gen. John Bell Hood and his 30,000-man army raced into Tennessee, hoping to divert Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s attention by threatening his supply base at Nashville. Sherman did not take the bait, and instead dispatched Maj. Gen. John Schofield’s Army of the Ohio, 30,000 strong, to protect Nashville while the rest of Sherman’s army simply left their supply line behind and marched to the Atlantic coast, forcibly securing whatever they needed to sustain themselves from the Confederate citizens in their path. Twenty-five thousand Union soldiers under Maj. Gen. George Thomas were entrenched in Nashville. If Schofield could reach them before Hood, he would command a numerical advantage on the battlefield. Hood’s hopes for a successful campaign rested on defeating Schofield before the two forces joined. After a missed opportunity at the Battle of Spring Hill on November 29, Hood pursued Schofield to the town of Franklin, where the Confederate general led an assault on November 30 that cost him 20 percent of his men and allowed Schofield to progress toward Nashville. |
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