Welcome to the Manitowoc
County Civil War Round Table
Next Meeting: May 14, 2012, Monday
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Manitowoc County Historical Society, a.k.a. Heritage Center
1701 Michigan Ave., Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Speaker: Dale Brasser
Program:
The Battle of Franklin
It was a bright Indian summer day in middle Tennessee on November 30, 1864. At about 4 p.m. with regimental flags flying and bands playing. Confederate John Bell Hood sent over 22,000 infantry over two miles of open fields with little artillery support in full frontal attack on Union entrenchments near the little town of Franklin, 18 miles southwest of of Nashville.
Before the fighting ended about 9 p.m., over 8,000 men would be dead, wounded or missing. The dead included five Confederate generals and a majority of the Confederate officer’s corps. (By comparison, Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg sent 12,000 men over one mile after two hours of artillery bombardments.) Although they would fight again at Nashville, Franklin signaled the death of Hood’s Army of Tennessee.
May presenter Dale Brasser will provide background information about the battle and the participants and show a video from the 125th Re-enactment of the battle of Franklin, in which he participated as an infantry soldier. Brasser was a charter president of the MCCWRT and currently serves as its treasurer. He re-enacted in state and national events with the 3rd and 2nd Wisconsin regiments. He’s a past president of the Civil War Round Table of Milwaukee, past treasurer of the Wisconsin Department of the Sons of Union Veterans, and is currently a member of the board of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin. He also served as chairman for seven years when the Civil War Re-enactments were held at the Pinecrest Village
Pictures taken from: Battle of Franklin http://www.civilwartraveler.com/West/TN/M-Hood1864.hml and Carter Cotton Gin http://www.franklinscharge.com
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