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 hitorical inforrmational
markers along the way. We won a door prize while celebrating 1k
finds of fellow MTGC members Bubbajarr and Sketty. This cache is
placed in their honor. Grats always fellas !
It was already found by many members of the MTGCs and
they've alrady signed the log at the event. If you hunt it and find
it again, you may log it as found again. This only applies to those
that found it the first time AT THE EVENT.
This is a known muggle zone. Caches have disappeared from
this area before. PLEASE replace and rehide as well or better than
you found it. No hint should be needed.
