Battle of Nashville & Beyond

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Carnton Panorama

Civil War Plantation Virtual Tour:

Revised: 27Sep16 with additional tour spots of the Eastern Flank Battle Field Park.

1345 Eastern Flank Circle | Franklin, TN 37064

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This home was used as a field hospital during the epic Battle of Franklin. Tour the grounds in a 360° view from 12 points on the battlefield. The site is also home to nearly 1500 Confederate soldiers buried here from the battle. It is the largest privately owned Confederate cemetery. Tour the Eastern Flank battlefield of Franklin, with interpretive signs embedded in the virtual tour.

Beginning at 4 p.m. on November 30, 1864, Carnton was witness to one of the bloodiest battles of the entire Civil War. Everything the McGavock family ever knew was forever changed… read more

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Winstead Hill Tour

Panoramic 360 Virtual Tour 

 

Updated: 29NOV16

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The site of Gen. John Bell Hood’s command post during the epic American Civil War Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.

The tour goes from Winstead Hill to Gen. Wagner’s position on Columbia Pike. It travels thru fields that are in the process of being sold and developed. This may be the last imagery of this part of the battlefield. They are aproximatlety 1 mile from the 2 mile charge to the Federal inner line from Winstead Hill up the Columbia Pike to Franklin.

4023 Columbia Ave, Franklin, TN 37064

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Fort Granger Tour

Fort Granger Virtual Tour:

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113 Fort Granger Dr, Franklin, TN 37064 | Lat: 35.92559 Long: -86.85999

Pinkerton Park Entrance is on Highway 96 near the Harpeth River Bridge

Revised: 12 Dec 2016 with higher resolution images and wintertime vistas.

Battle of Franklin tour of Civil War Fort Granger. The tour links to the Carter House, Carnton, Cotton Gin and Nashville tours.

Built in 1862-1863 atop Figuers Bluff on the Harpeth River on the Nashville Railroad, it encompasses about 275,000 square feet. It is named for Union Gen. Gordon Granger, and played a significant role in The Battle of Franklin in 1864.

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Kennesaw Mountain

Battle of Atlanta Virtual Tour 

 

900 Kennesaw Mountain Drive, Kennesaw, GA 3015kennesaw-image

The battle of Kennesaw Mountain was one of the last successful maneuvers of the Confederate Army of Tennessee in the Atlanta Champaign. This virtual tour, includes the Kennesaw mountain top and 

 

Cheatham Hill

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“The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the most significant frontal assault launched by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, ending in a tactical defeat for the Union forces. Strategically, however, the battle failed to deliver the result that the Confederacy desperately needed—namely a halt to Sherman’s advance on Atlanta.” – Wikipedia

 

 

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The Red Clay Minuet

The Atlanta Champaign Virtual Tour 

 

“The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston.atlanta-400

Johnston’s Army of Tennessee withdrew toward Atlanta in the face of successive flanking maneuvers by Sherman’s group of armies. In July, the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, replaced Johnston with the more aggressive John Bell Hood, who began challenging the Union Army in a series of damaging frontal assaults. Hood’s army was eventually besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, setting the stage for Sherman’s March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war.”      – Wikipedia

A running battle after the retreat of the Confederates at Missionary Ridge in the Battle of Chattanooga, these panoramas are some of the best preserved battlefields from that chapter of the war. In sequence from North Georgia to Atlanta:

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Tunnel Hill (admission fee) – 215 Clisby Austin Drive, Tunnel Hill, GA 30755 (to be re-shot)

Rocky Face – 2401 Chattanooga Road, Dalton, GA 30720

Dug Gap 1 – Dug Gap Mountain Rd, Dalton, GA 30720 (34.742882, -85.015281)

Dug Gap 2 – (34°44’51.2″N 85°00’56.3″W)

Resaca Battlefield Historic Site – Resaca Lafayette Rd NW, Resaca, GA 30735

Etowah Furnace – Altoona – 1052 Old River Road SE, Cartersville, GA 30121

Pickett’s Mill – 4432 Mount Tabor Church Road, Dallas, GA 30157 (Open Thursday- Saturday)

Kennesaw Mountain – 900 Kennesaw Mountain Dr, Kennesaw, GA 30188 – tour

Peachtree Creek – 482-488 Collier Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30309 – tour 

The History of the American Civil War in Georgia. Narrated by Hal Holbrook.

“The Battle for Georgia – a History of The Civil War in Georgia” is a 24 Minute educational documentary commissioned by SMMA and produced by Stone Mountain Productions, Inc. The award winning film is narrated by Hal Holbrook and features hundreds of archival photographic images from the Civil War.

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