The Civil War - The Great Charge of the Light Brigade, the Battle of Franklin

The battle of franklin and nashville represents the only time before the surrender at appomattox that an army was destroyed, just ceased to exist. This story is also part of sherman's mar to the sea, which everybody knows about. But as i'll try to talk about in this episode, sherman's march to the sea,. as he said himself, was the easy part. The forty thousand veteran confederate soldiers who made up the army of the tennessee, who were moving north against george thomas, into tennessee. That was the tough parta, that's what we're going to talk about to day.