Franklin–Nashville Campaign

The Franklin–Nashville Campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee Campaign, is a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War.

The Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood drives north from Atlanta, threatening Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's lines of communications and central Tennessee.

After a brief attempt to pursue Hood, Sherman returns to Atlanta and begins his March to the Sea, leaving Union forces under Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas to deal with Hood's threat.Hood hopes to defeat the Union force under Maj. Gen. John Schofield before it can converge with Thomas's army and attempts to do so at the Battle of Spring Hill on November 29, but poorly coordinated Confederate attacks allow Schofield to escape.

The following day, Hood launches a series of futile frontal assaults against Schofield's field fortifications in the Battle of Franklin, suffering heavy casualties; Schofield withdraws his force and successfully links up with Thomas in Nashville, Tennessee.

On December 15–16, Thomas's combined army attacks Hood's depleted army and routs it in the Battle of Nashville, sending it in retreat to Tupelo, Mississippi.

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