On November 30, 1864 the Confederate Army of Tennessee commanded by Lieut. General John Bell Hood attacked the Union Army of the Ohio under the command of Maj. Gen. John Schofield at Franklin, Tennessee. After repulsing numerous frontal assaults on the Union fortified position Schofield was able to conduct an orderly withdrawal of his army to Nashville.
Brentwood
Union Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of