Advancing With Scott's Brigade

At 4:20 pm on November 30, 1864, during the Battle of Franklin, Confederate Gen. Thomas M. Scott’s brigade came within 1,200 yards of the Union lines and entered the range of case-shot shells from Union smoothbore artillery in the defenses ahead. Loaded with scores of lead spheres, the shells burst overhead like large grenades. Scott’s men advanced alongside Gen. Winfield S. Featherston’s brigade to the front and left, made up of six regiments and one battalion from Mississippi, while Gen. John Adams and his six Mississippi infantry regiments followed behind. Seeing the tremendous losses suffered by Scott’s and Featherston’s men, Adams shifted his brigade to the left in search of a better path into the Union lines, but he failed to find one and was killed in the attempt.

Franklin, Tennessee · United States