- Date
- December 15, 1864 – December 16, 1864
- Location
- Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
- Result
- Union victory; End of the Army of Tennessee as an effective fighting force
- Part of
- American Civil War
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
About the battle
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin–Nashville campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood and the Union Army of the Cumberland (Dept. of the Cumberland) (AoC) under Major General George H. Thomas. In one of the largest victories achieved by the Union army during the war, Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force.
From the Wikipedia article “Battle of Nashville”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Result, date and location from the article’s infobox and Wikidata.
