Battle of Nashville

Battle of Nashville
Part of the American Civil War

3rd brigade, 1st division of the XVI Corps attacking the Rebel line, published in Harper's Weekly
DateDecember 15–16, 1864
Location36°05′17″N 86°48′35″W / 36.0881°N 86.8098°W / 36.0881; -86.8098
Result

Union victory

Belligerents
 United States (Union) Confederate States of America CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
George H. Thomas John Bell Hood
Units involved

Army of the Cumberland (Dept. of the Cumberland):

Army of Tennessee
Strength
55,000[1] 22,000[2]–30,000[1]
Casualties and losses
3,061
(387 killed
 2,558 wounded
 112 missing/captured)[1]
~6,000
(1,500 killed/wounded
 4,500 missing/captured, several batteries captured by Union forces)[1]

The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign[3][4] that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood and the Union Army of the Cumberland (Dept. of the Cumberland) (AoC) under Major General George H. Thomas. In one of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army during the war, Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force.[5][note 2]


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