The Battle of Franklin Tennessee November 30, 1864.

First edition of Jacob D. Cox's The Battle of Franklin Tennessee

The Battle of Franklin Tennessee November 30, 1864.

COX, Jacob D.

Item Number: 132990

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.

First edition of Union General Jacob Dolson Cox’s account of the Battle of Franklin. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition.

The Second Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John Schofield and was unable to prevent Schofield from executing a planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville.

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