Confederate Casualties at The Battle of Franklin <BR>

Sixteenth
South Carolina
C.S.A.
Confederate Casualties
at the
Battle of Franklin Sixteenth
South Carolina
C.S.A.

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Cleburne(LOC) Adams(USAMHI) Carter(LOC) Stahl(LOC)

Gist(LOC) Granbury (LOC)

Casualties of the Sixteenth South Carolina at Franklin and Nashville.

Casualties of Confederate General Officers

Killed:

Major General Pat Cleburne
Brigadier General John Adams
Brigadier General John C. Carter
Brigadier General States Rights Gist
Brigadier General Otho Stahl
Brigadier Hiram Granbury

Wounded:

Major General John C. Brown (Wounded)
Brigadier General F.M. Cockrell (Wounded)
Brigadier General Zachariah C. Deas (Wounded)
Brigadier General Arthur Manigault (Wounded)
Brigadier General William A. Quarles (Wounded, Later Captured)
Brigadier General Thomas M. Scott (Wounded)

Captured:

Brigadier General George W. Gordon (Captured)

Regimental Command Losses:

Most sources quote around fifty-five casualties for regimental commanders, from about 150 Regiments in the three Corps directly involved in the assault.

Total Casualties:

Around 7,000 Confederate casualties occurred at Franklin. Total Confederate dead will never be known but around 1,700 men probably died during the battle... There was nobody left to write the reports and those that were left had Nashville in front of them.

Historians and Old Confederates often wondered which was worse Pickett's Charge or the Assault at Franklin. Although I suspect neither was a picnic, these points are often made by those who point to Franklin as the toughest assault made by a Confederate Army. Pickett had artillery and lots of it, the men of Franklin made the assault before the majority of the artillery had arrived. Pickett crossed about one mile of open ground, the men of Franklin went about twice as far. Pickett faced a low stone wall, the men of Franklin well prepared breastworks.
The men of Franklin broke the line and held the works well into the evening. Pickett's men withdrew rather quickly. Comparisons of casualties are revealing as well.
Never led by a charismatic leader, never loved or remembered by anyone but those who served in it, The Confederate Army of Tennessee marches into history. The Battlefield at Franklin with some excellent exceptions has not been well preserved and is little remembered. The battlefield at Nashville is worse. The ghosts are there though, Tom Cartwright knows and hears them and so can anyone else with the ear to listen. God Vindicates.

Abbreviations:

LOC-Library of Congress
USAMHI-United States Army Military History Institute

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