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[springkeeper]

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Hubby discussed some great points.

I have lived in Franklin all of my life and I have seen many changes in 38 years. Development has been feverishly pushed by the county and city officials.

The Carter House was approached for a "land swap", a new building would be built behind the house ( ground zero ) and the Carter House given the Boys and Girls Club just north of the house ( ground zero). The builldings were to be torn down and returned to green. To this day, the buildings remain standing and in use. The Carter House remains silent. Battlefield lost.

The county went "under the table" to purchase and build a new library within 100 yards south of the Carter House. The news did not come out until the deal was done. Battlefield lost.

A office complex was recently built within the same vicinity but nothing was said. Battlefield lost.

These three incidents have taken place in the past 7 years.

Thousands of people from the north and recently from the west have moved into Williamson County. Franklin is now home to the Nissan World headquarters which is moving from California. The Mayor of Franklin wants more major corporations to move here. As a side note, he stated he did not want Confederate battleflags at the Anniversery of the Battle of Franklin this past Novermber :confused_

The majority of these people do not know a battle was fought here and could care less. When I have volunteered at the Carter House and other historic sites, I have heard folks say, " I have lived here 3 years/10 years and did not know a battle was fought in Franklin." When Fort Granger is mentioned," There is a fort here in Franklin? Neat."

I wish Franklin's history was viewed more than "neat".

[hpotter]

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This is truely a sad situation that Franklin has put itself in. They seem to think that there is no way to put the wheels in reverse. I agree that it would be tough. Just about once a week I look at that property and use it as the only place where I can picture the waves of troops. However, I am grateful that the acres in which Stewarts boys passed over is being saved. The center gets a lot of the glory just as the stone wall does at Fredericksburg. Where the Carnton Plantation is and the newly acquired golf course property is there was extensive fighting. Fort Granger's guns as well as the battery set up on the other side of the river were pouring into these men. Like y'all though I think that this is too little too late. I'd love for that land to be saved.

[Silver Spring Guards]

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Give me a bulldozer and I will make my own battlefield park there just befind the Carter House Visiter center where my 3rd Great Grandfather Daniel Marion Craft fought in & survived the horrors of Franklin.

He was in the 22nd Alabama - Brig. Gen. Zachariah C. Deas' Brigade - Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson's Division of Stephan D Lee's Corp.

The Divison arrived shortly after the attack had began & about an hour after dark, Johnson started his division forward stumbling in the dark across unfamiliar terrain moving toward the federal works. The only light on the pitch black scene came from "The lurid and rapid flashes from the enemy works." and the flaming torches carried by the right and left guides. All the while stumbling and falling over the bodies from the previous charges while hearing their pleas, cries & moans. Oh what a horror that must have been.

Total Casualties:

Johnson's Division - 127 killed, 424 wounded, and 36 missing
Brantly's Brigade - 76 killed, 140 wounded, and 21 missing.
Manigault's Brigade - 5 Killed, 85 wounded, 1 missing
Sharp's Brigade - 30 Killed, 81 Wounded and 9 missing

The losses of Deas Brigade - 13 killed, 101 wounded, and 5 missing

Officers:
Brig. Gen . Zach Deas Wounded
- Tended to at the Harrison House

Captain James H. Skinner's 19th Alabama Co K
Wounded "left thigh"

Lt. Col. E. H. Armistead, 22nd Alabama, Mortally Wounded
- Died Dec. 7 1864 at the Marshall House in Franklin and is Buried Oakwood Cemetery Montgomery

Major Thomas McCarroll Prince 22nd Alabama
Wounded - Tended to at the Home of Gen Lucius Polk - Hamilton Place

Capt William O. Baldwin 22nd Alabama Co.G
Killed - during the charge he picked up the Colors of the 22nd scaled the works and planted them in the dirt, he was killed moments later.
Capt Baldwin had just celewbrated his 19th bithday 7 days before while camped on Granddaddy creek a few miles west of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Nove 23rd. ( He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama.)

Adjutants Jonathan Stout 25th Alabama - Wounded

Ordinance Sergeant Abraham Steinhardt - Wounded Captured on 12/17/1864.

Dr. Fielding P. Sloan Surgeon 26th/50th Alabama Infantry
- Wounded in left wrist and right lung Bed riden untill his Death on June 19, 1865. Died in Franklin Tn Buried in the New Heaven Cemetery

Other Casualties
William T.C Derrick, 19th Alabama Co K Wounded and Captured
- Admitted to the USA General Hospital Died from the shock of injury and loss of blood from an simple flesh wound penetrating the pelvis Dec. 17th 1964 Buried Confederate Circle, Mt. Olivet (age 22)

Christopher Bailey 22nd Alabama Co. H Wounded
- Continued until December 26, 1864; Taken prisoner at Pulaski, Tennessee and imprisoned at Nashville, Tennessee and transferred to prison at Louisville, Kentucky, then paroled June 16, 1865,

H. Lewis Morris 25th Alabama Co. D - Wounded

Marion Handley 25 th Alabama Co. F - Wounded

John,Bailey 25 th Alabama Co. E - Wounded

Charles Edward Watson, 25th Alabama Co F - Captured

William Washington Munroe. 25th Alabama - Killed

A officer in the the 111th Ohio stated after the retaken of the town dec. 17th that on the ground in front of the works occupied by the 111th OVI during the battle of Franklin 7 graves of the 22nd Alabama were found with a few of them inside the works.