On November 29, 1864 the Confederate Army of Tennessee (Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood) crossed the Duck River and attacked the IV and XXIII Corps (Maj. Gen. John Schofield) at Spring Hill. Hood’s strategy to outflank Schofield’s position and lines of supply failed before the Union forces could successfully withdraw and form a defensive line in Franklin.
Franklin-Stones River Campaign
On December 26, 1862 Colonel Lewis Zahm’s Union cavalry brigade attacked a small Confederate cavalry force led by Colonel Baxter Smith. Zahm’s