Monday, November 30, 2020

Texas general dies with his men in disastrous battle


(Texas Day by Day) ... After the fall of Atlanta, Granbury led his brigade in Hood's invasion of Tennessee.
He was one of at least 1,750 Confederate soldiers killed in the frontal assault at Franklin, the highest total of rebel dead for any single-day battle of the war.
A Texas captain wrote of the battle, "It can't be called anything else but cold blooded murder." More

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