Battle of Nashville

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The Battle of Nashville was a battle of the American Civil War. It was fought on December 15 and 16, 1864.

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American Civil War

Origins

Origins Issues	Timeline leading to the War • Antebellum era • Bleeding Kansas • Border states • Compromise of 1850 • Dred Scott v. Sandford • Missouri Compromise • Popular sovereignty • Secession • States' rights • President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers

Slavery	African Americans • Emancipation Proclamation • Fugitive slave laws • Slave Power • Treatment of slaves in the United States • Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionism	Susan B. Anthony • John Brown • Frederick Douglass • William Lloyd Garrison • Lysander Spooner • George Luther Stearns • Charles Sumner • Harriet Tubman • Underground Railroad

Combatants
Theaters
Campaigns
Battles
States

Combatants

Union (USA)	Army • Navy • Marine Corps • Revenue Cutter Service

Confederacy (CSA)	Army • Navy • Marine Corps

Theaters

Eastern • Western • Lower Seaboard • Trans-Mississippi • Pacific Coast • Union naval blockade

Major Campaigns

Anaconda Plan • Blockade runners of the American Civil War • New Mexico • Jackson's Valley • Peninsula • Northern Virginia • Maryland • Stones River • Vicksburg • Tullahoma • Gettysburg • Morgan's Raid • Bristoe • Knoxville • Red River • Overland • Atlanta • Valley 1864 • Bermuda Hundred • Richmond-Petersburg • Franklin–Nashville • Price's Raid • Sherman's March • Carolinas • Appomattox

Fort Sumter • 1st Bull Run • Wilson's Creek • Fort Donelson • Pea Ridge • Hampton Roads • Shiloh • New Orleans • Corinth • Seven Pines • Seven Days • 2nd Bull Run • Antietam • Perryville • Fredericksburg • Stones River • Chancellorsville • Gettysburg • Vicksburg • Chickamauga • Chattanooga • Wilderness • Spotsylvania • Cold Harbor • Atlanta • Mobile Bay • Franklin • Nashville • Five Forks

Involvement (by
state or territory)

AL • AK • AR • AZ • CA • CO • CT • DC • DE • FL • GA • HI • ID • IL • IN • IA • KS • KY • LA • ME • MD • MA • MI • MN • MS • MO • MT • NE • NV • NH • NJ • NM • NY • NC • ND • OH • OK • OR • PA • RI • SC • SD • TN • TX • UT • VT • VA • WA • WV • WI • WY

Leaders

Confederate

Military	R.H. Anderson • Beauregard • Bragg • Cooper • Early • Ewell • Forrest • Gorgas • Hill • Hood • Jackson • A.S. Johnston • J.E. Johnston • Lee • Longstreet • Morgan • Mosby • Price • Quantrill • Semmes • E.K. Smith • Stuart • Taylor • Wheeler

Civilian	Benjamin • Bocock • Breckinridge • Davis • Hunter • Mallory • Memminger • Seddon • Stephens

Union

Military	Anderson • Buell • Burnside • Butler • Du Pont • Farragut • Foote • Frémont • Grant • Halleck • Hooker • Hunt • McClellan • McDowell • Meade • Meigs • Ord • Pope • D.D. Porter • Rosecrans • Scott • Sheridan • Sherman • Thomas

Civilian	Adams • Chase • Ericsson • Hamlin • Lincoln • Pinkerton • Seward • Stanton • Stevens • Wade • Welles

Aftermath

U.S. Constitution	13th Amendment • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment

Reconstruction	Alabama Claims • Carpetbaggers • Freedman's Savings Bank • Freedmen's Bureau • Redeemers • Southern Claims Commission

post-Reconstruction	Disenfranchisement (Black Codes • Jim Crow) • Ku Klux Klan • Lost Cause

Cemeteries	Confederate monuments and memorials • National cemeteries • U.S. monuments and memorials

Veterans	Grand Army of the Republic • Old soldiers' homes • United Confederate Veterans

Related topics

Related topics

Military	Balloon Corps • Bushwhacker • Cavalry • Field artillery • Medicine • Military leadership • Naval battles • Official Records • Signal Corps • Turning points • Medal of Honor recipients

Political	Committee on the Conduct of the War • Confederate war finance • Copperheads • Political General • Radical Republicans • Trent Affair • War Democrats

Other topics	Bibliography • Commemoration • Draft Riots • Historical reenactment • Music • Names of the War • Native Americans • Photographers • Rail transport • Supreme Court cases • U.S. Sanitary Commission

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