Franklin

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Title

Franklin

Creator

Richard J. LeFevre (1931 - 2000)

Format

watercolor and mixed media on paper

Description

After the fall of Atlanta, General John Bell Hood, who had been defending the city, decided to take his 30,000-strong Army of Tennessee and make a concentrated effort to recapture Tennessee, thus disrupting General William Tecumseh Sherman’s supply lines. As he moved toward the capital of Nashville, he was confronted by the Union Army of the Ohio under the command of Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield on November 30, 1864. Shown as the large figure in the center the painting, General Hood ordered attack after attack after attack. Killed in the battle were six Confederate generals (shown in photographs across the middle of the illustration, left to right): John C. Carter, Hiram B. Granbury, John Adams “States Rights” Gist, and Otho F. Strahl, as well as one of the most beloved Confederate generals, Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne, shown on the extreme right.

Source

Bequest of the Artist

Collection

Citation

Richard J. LeFevre (1931 - 2000), “Franklin,” Ewing Gallery Permanent Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ewinggallery.omeka.net/items/show/199.