At Franklin, Gen. Francis Marion Cockrell led the 1st Missouri Brigade, part of Gen. Samuel French’s Division in Gen. A.P. Stewart’s Corps, in the Confederate attack near the Carter Farm. A seasoned commander by late 1864 who had fought at Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, Corinth, Vicksburg, and in the Atlanta Campaign, Cockrell advanced with nearly 700 men, initially moving in reserve behind Gen. Claudius Sears’s Brigade. When Sears’s men became entangled with elements of Col. Joseph Conrad’s Brigade in the Federal advanced line, the Missourians streamed around and past them and charged toward the main Federal line near the Carter cotton gin and two guns of the 6th Ohio Battery. As they approached the Federal earthworks, the brigade came under devastating artillery and small arms fire and suffered horrendous casualties, with men falling in waves. Cockrell was wounded four times and barely left the field alive, many survivors were pinned down and surrendered, and by the end of the battle the brigade had lost more than 60 percent of its men. Many of the Missourians killed there are buried today at the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Carnton.