. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ely the case thai the inlluence of a jiarticailarcommand in controlling a great event can l)e asclearly trac( d as in of the First Ihigade at I-rankliu; and the deci-sive character of the battle itself cannot he overestimatid, as it transpiredat a most critical jieriod of the war. Irielly stated, the situation was something as IoUows :(ieneral Sherman was in (ieoigia, rapidly aiijiroaching Savannah, butstill with<iut a base: (ieneral (n-anl had no iroo])s to s
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ely the case thai the inlluence of a jiarticailarcommand in controlling a great event can l)e asclearly trac( d as in of the First Ihigade at I-rankliu; and the deci-sive character of the battle itself cannot he overestimatid, as it transpiredat a most critical jieriod of the war. Irielly stated, the situation was something as IoUows :(ieneral Sherman was in (ieoigia, rapidly aiijiroaching Savannah, butstill with<iut a base: (ieneral (n-anl had no iroo])s to s])are from the frontof Petersburg and ilicliniond; in New(hleans and ot hei places in t he farSouth ami We-i we had only a few thousand men. Hoods success atFranklin, thcrefoie. meant Confederate snpi-emacy over Tennessee andKentucky, with the numerical strength of his army raised probably to atleast 1(10,(10(1 men. With such a force it was possible for him toswcejiup1,, the (»lno bivei-. and thereby oblige (leiiei-al (iraut to detach largely fromhis armv for the pioiection of the West, thus exposing (ieneral Shermait. .l(isi;iii , i< i23ili O. J. 1, ASSOCIATION. 447 in Georgia to a concentratid attack by Lee before he could reach his new-base. In a word, had Hood entered Nasliville 8Word in liand at the head nf avictdvions army, whicli wunld have resulted from defeat of the Tlunn armyat Fraidclin, the civil war in all its suliseqnent scenes might have liccnessentially varied. Battles tirial fur rdnceptidu ni-political i-esults, mii^lit to lie studied ;l)Ut those that sa\e should lie connnemorated and cilelirated. \\e owea<imiratiou to llie tirst ; ,u,iatitude to the others. Franklin was essentially-a battle that sa\-ed, and as such must he ciassilied as second only to < iettys-burii in importance during Ww entire war. In this transcendent conflict the First Ihigadejilayed a part peculiarly its own. AVhatever disputesmay have arisen from the liattlein other resp
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