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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Brentwood, Tennessee, Franklin, Tennessee, Fairview, Tennessee, Spring Hill, Tennessee, Thompson's Station, Tennessee, Nolensville, Tennessee, Battle of Franklin, National Register of Historic Places listings in Williamson County, Tennessee, Brentwood High School, Ravenwood High School, Coats-Hines Site, Old Town, Triune, Tennessee, Warner Parks, Independence High School, Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge, Smithson-McCall Farm, Old Town Bridge, William Boyd House, Lewisburg Avenue Historic District, Battle of Brentwood, Thomas Brown House, Williamson County Schools, Knights of Pythias Pavilion, Bank of Nolensville, Boyd Mill Ruins, Bostick Female Academy, Beasley-Parham House, Battle of Thompson's Station, Adams Street Historic District, Liberty Hill School, College Grove, Tennessee, Owl's Hill Nature Center, The Bank of College Grove, Kirkland, Williamson County, Tennessee, Boyd-Wilson Farm, Bethesda, Tennessee, Cool Springs, Tennessee, Stokely Davis House, WPFD, Nashville Tennessee Temple, William Allison House, Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, Knight-Moran House, Hobby Lobby International, Mill Creek, Montpier, Rudderville, Tennessee, Arrington, Tennessee, Liberty Hill, Tennessee. Excerpt: The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield and was unable to break through or to prevent Schofield from a planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville. The Confederate assault with eighteen brigades of almost 20,000 men, sometimes called the "Pickett's Charge of the West," resulted ...