. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . ulder early in the fight, and was urged to leavethe field, but said: No; I am going to see my men brigade suffered terribly, having over four hundred and fiftykilled and wounded, many field and line officers being of the num-ber. After Adams death General Robert Lowry command-ed thebrigade—afterward governor of Mississippi. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Adams Baker, of the Sixty-fifthIndiana infantry, in the great battle of Franklin, Tennessee, hadan experience with General John Adams, of the ConfederateArmy, which induced him, years af
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . ulder early in the fight, and was urged to leavethe field, but said: No; I am going to see my men brigade suffered terribly, having over four hundred and fiftykilled and wounded, many field and line officers being of the num-ber. After Adams death General Robert Lowry command-ed thebrigade—afterward governor of Mississippi. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Adams Baker, of the Sixty-fifthIndiana infantry, in the great battle of Franklin, Tennessee, hadan experience with General John Adams, of the ConfederateArmy, which induced him, years after the war, to publish a desire 41S ].; AND VKMV (>K TENN KSSEE. for knowledge of his family. Having secured the address of in St. Louis, he wrote from Webb City, Missouri, October25th, 1891 :Mrs. General Adams, St. Louis. Dear Madam : I am in receipt of your very kind letter of the21 st instant, and hasten to reply. * * * I have often since thegreat battle of Franklin asked myself the question, who was General. THE FAMOUS GIN HOUSE IN FRANKLIN. Adams? Has he a wife and children? And if so, how much wouldthey give to know just how he died and all the facts as I knowthem? * * * The battle of Franklin was one of the most desperate contestsof the war. I was in command1 of the skirmish line of Coxs divi-sion. General Adams and General Browns brigades, of the Con-federate Army, were massed in front of our division. We had dur-ing the forenoon thrown up breast-works of earth some ten feetthick and five feet high, behind which our men stood protected;while the enemy came up in an open field and charged upon had no protection, and were mowed down like grass beforethe scythe. This will explain to you how desperate was the under-taking to dislodge our army from behind this impenetrable breast-work and the sublime heroism of the nun who undertook the peril-task and almost succeeded. The Confederates came on with bayonets fixed and movingat a stea
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