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HE BATTLE OF NASHVILLE By Ross Massey, BONPS Historian. Preface: After the battles for Chattanooga, Union troops pursued the Confederate forces to ...

Battle of Nashville / Civil War Sites
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Left: Detail from "The Battle of Nashville," painted by Howard Pyle. ... This scene is one of six mural-sized paintings of Minnesota's Civil War regiments hanging ...

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The Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, fought December 15–16, 1864, shattered the Confederate Army of Tennessee and marked the end of major Confederate ...

Peach Orchard Hill--Jan. 20, 2005
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Jan 20, 2005 - Severe fighting at Peach Orchard Hill on the second day of the Battle of ... It can be easily located by the huge U.S. flag flying at nearby Franklin Road Academy. ... 229 casualties out of a total of 556 men, including five color bearers. ... have produced the most USCT casualties of any battle in the Civil War.

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... Hill to the west, and Overton Hill (also known as Peach Orchard Hill) to the east. ... Five color bearersof the 13th USCT — carrying a flag emblazed with its origin: ... Compton's Hill, which anchored the Confederate left, was so steep that, as one ... A costly stand at the narrow Holly Tree Gap farther south allowed Hood ..

 December 16, with temperatures poised to reach the mid-60s. Once again, Union artillery opened the day and the infantry moved forward. By the afternoon, the men in blue were making inroads on Peach Orchard Hill, particularly a brigade that included the 12th, 13th and 100th USCT, which gamely moved up the slope into the Rebel guns. A soldier in the 18th Alabama fumed, “To our disgust, they were all Negroes.” Five color bearers of the 13th USCT — carrying a flag emblazed with its origin:  “Presented by the Colored Ladies of Murfreesboro” — were shot down before their banner was captured. The regiment lost 40 percent of its men, the highest casualty rate of the battle.  .

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Dec 16, 2014 - Following the engagement, an officer of the 100th USCT surveyed the ... unity, manhood and peace to all men, whatever birth or complexion.”.

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Aug 29, 2017 - Five color bearers of the 13th U.S.C.I. — carrying a flag with its origin: ... Ordered to assault Peach Orchard Hill during the battle, after many ...

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Black soldiers achieved something “virtually unheard of” at the Battle of Nashville in 1864

Posted December 16th, 2014 by James DeWolf Perry
Category: History Tags: Battle of Nashville, Civil War, Emancipation, Emancipation to Equality, U.S. Colored Troops

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Nashville, which, between December 16-17, 1864, broke General John Bell Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee and left Tennessee in Union hands for the duration of the war.

In a military sense, the 13th United States Colored Troops, despite their bravery and sacrifice on the first day of the battle, “contributed nothing to the Union victory.” Yet this African American regiment achieved something “virtually unheard of in the war” with their courage and sacrifice: they “not only earned the awed respect of white Union troops who witnessed their efforts; they also garnered heartfelt praise from an opposing Confederate general in his official report.”

The 13th U.S.C.T. was comprised of 20 officers and 556 men, most of whom had been enslaved in northern Tennessee until Union forces arrived in 1862. Ordered to assault Overton Hill during the battle, after many white Union regiments had failed, the 13th U.S.C.T. was quickly slaughtered by the Confederate troops defending the hill. Yet in undertaking this task as if with “a charge into hell itself,” these freed slaves, untried in fierce combat, won in their deaths the admiration of friend and foe alike.

Confederate Brigadier General James T. Holtzclaw, in command of Confederate troops defending Overton Hill, put in his official report:

The enemy made a most determined charge on my right. Placing a negro brigade in front they gallantly dashed up the abatis … and were killed by hundreds … they continued to come up in masses to the abatis, but they came only to die.

As impressive as it was for the men of the 13th U.S.C.T. to win the admiration of a Confederate general, their influence on their fellow Union troops was even more important. After all, most northerners had not been in favor of abolition when the Civil War began, and even now, had questions about whether blacks preferred freedom to slavery, much less whether they were willing and able to fight and sacrifice in the cause of freeing others. Thus is it highly significant that after a battle such as this, a Union surgeon was moved to write home:

Don’t tell me negroes won’t fight! I know better.

Also impressed was George Lewis, a Union officer with the 124th Ohio:

I never saw more heroic conduct showed on the field of battle than was exhibited by this body of men so recently slaves.

As our “Emancipation to Equality” campaign emphasizes, the emancipation of our nation’s slaves wasn’t brought about primarily through the actions of a few white elites, or even the broad mass of the northern public. Instead, emancipation was made a reality by the grassroots actions of millions, most of them free or enslaved African Americans whose determined actions brought about freedom for themselves or others, and in the process gradually altered white opinion in the North. Only in this way would emancipation be (barely) adopted as official policy by Union representatives in Congress in early 1865, as the Civil War was drawing to a close.

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Jan 22, 2011 - Of the 556 USCT troops, 229 were killed, including five color-bearers. The Confederates held their position on Peach Orchard Hill until later that ...

Colored Troops Carried the Flag 

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Peach Orchard Hill battle of nashville

Black union troops sacrificed to carry the stars and stripes withing 30 feet of confederate lines instead of kneeling to protest a flag of racial oppression.

Why nobody ever heard of this????

Rebel gunfire also decimated the 13th’s color guard, which had brought the standards to within 30 feet of the enemy line. “There were very few negroes who retreated in our front,” declared an Alabama soldier on Overton Hill, “and none were at their post when the firing ceased; for we fired as long as there was anything to shoot at.” While the 13th’s shattered ranks tumbled back, the adjutant of the 18th Alabama Infantry stepped out from behind the breastworks to pick up the fallen flag. “The bearer was dead, as were nearly all of his comrades,” the Alabamian reported.

As Thompson’s troops retreated, they passed a section of the 14th USCT that had come forward to cover them. Captain Romeyn had no trouble tracing their path, as “the ground [was] strewn with dead and wounded as thickly as a farmer’s field with sheaves of a more peaceful reaper.” He remembered the “color corporal of the 12th, the only man of it left on his feet, standing beside his color, the staff of which he had driven into the soft ground, and loading and firing….Before many seconds had passed a glancing shot struck the side of his head, and pulling up his flag he drew from beneath the dead [color] sergeant the stars and stripes, and with both under one arm, and his musket in the other hand, the blood streaming down his face, he strode proudly back through the supporting line.”