Putting Spring Hill on the map. . . one cache at a time
This was for the longest time just another bean and hay field.
Probably much the same as when the Blue and Gray fought over it.
It's now the Spring Hill Battlefield; although that's
debatable.
Spring Hill was the prelude to the Battle of Franklin. On the
night of November 28, 1864, Gen. John Bell Hood’s Army of
Tennessee marched toward Spring Hill to get astride Maj. Gen. John
M. Schofield’s Union army’s life line. Cavalry
skirmishing between Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson’s Union
cavalry and Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Confederate
troopers continued throughout the day as the Confederates advanced.
On November 29, Hood’s infantry crossed Duck River and
converged on Spring Hill. In the meantime, Maj. Gen. Schofield
reinforced the troops holding the crossroads at Spring Hill. In
late afternoon, the Federals repulsed a piecemeal Confederate
infantry attack. During the night, the rest of Schofield’s
command passed from Columbia through Spring Hill to Franklin. This
was, perhaps, Hood’s best chance to isolate and defeat the
Union army. The engagement has been described as “one of the
most controversial non-fighting events of the entire war."
A well mowed walk with historical informational markers along
the way. The last few feet may require a little bushwacking and bug
spray during the warm weather months
Coords taken with Garmin 60CSx 500 waypoints averaged with
<12ft accuracy
Park at N 35°44.228 W 086°55.497 NOT THE
WALKING TRACK. You can get to the cache from there but it's a LOT
easier to get there from the right parking spot
