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Title	Pages 081-082, Civil War Diary of Confederate soldier George D. Wise
Description	Dec. 3rd [1864] near Nashville [TN] Left Franklin Dec 1st. Marched only a few miles from town & bivouacked for the night in line of battle … Our loss in the battle at Franklin amounted to about 3,400 in killed, wounded & prisoners. Both men & officers behaved with unsurpassed gallantry, yielding up their lives in the ditches, & on the parapet of the enemy’s works. The positions of the dead plainly told how nobly they had fought –in some instances the hands & arms showed they were in the act of firing – in some the heroes lay in front of the enemy’s line – their hands filled with the mud clenched in the act of climbing over into the ditches of the foe. On no field have I seen greater proofs of courage than I saw here. Each man, who fell, deserves a monument to his memory. They had to advance over a clear open space of 500 yards under a terrific fire from an enemy protected by breastworks with head logs. They did it bravely … Our loss in General officers was large – 2 or 3 generals killed & several wounded. Here died the gallant & lamented [ General Patrick] Cleburne. Officers of all grades made themselves conspicuous for their gallantry.
Subjects	Civil War Soldiers
Creator	George D. Wise
Format	Handwritten diary
Rights	http://morristownlibrary.org/HCFindingAids/reproductions.pdf
Image ID	civilwardiary 081-082
Publisher	Morristown, NJ: Morristown & Morris Township Public Library, The North Jersey History & Genealogy Center

Pages 081-082, Civil War Diary of Confederate soldier George D. Wise

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