10,000 luminaries mark the 160th anniversary of a bloody Tennessee battle

November 30th, 2024 marks the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Franklin. Volunteers helped set up ten thousand luminaries at the historic Carter House and Carnton plantation.

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As usual every year, I thought about the Battle of Franklin on Nov. 30. One of the saddest days in the history of the Army of Tennessee, the fatal decision of Gen. Hood that wrecked that army and for nothing. Lost Cleburne that day, a total waste of a genuinely excellent combat commander and tactician. Long may the memories of these brave men live in the hearts and minds of Southerners.

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Beautiful ❤

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My family had well over twenty members sirvive being members of the Confederacy, and another twenty or more that did not sirvive the war. When they refer to the north it is implied as north of the Mason Dixon Line. The Civil War proved that it is Impossible to ced from the United States because the Government owns the land of all states. Tennessee no more owns the state than it ever did. Tennessee is owned by the United States Government and the Tennessee State Government controls the property within its jurisdiction within the Constitution of the United States. No law made in a state has the right to supersede the Constitution. The state does have the right to control its commerce between states but may not make treaties or regulatory contracts with foreign countries.
My own great Grandfather was captured in 1861 and switched allegiances and was sent west to protect traveling wagontrains, telegraph lines and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and later The Yellowstone area with the 6th and 9th Calvary known as the Buffalo Soldiers. He was a Lieutenant in the 7th mounted detached to the 6th and 9th.