Artillery replicas arrive in Franklin to be set on battlefield

By David Walsh

Originally published on franklinhomepage.com on September 20, 2017

The 3-inch ordnance rifles are accurate replicas of Union artillery pieces that were in place on Carter Hill when Confederate troops led by Gen. John Bell Hood conducted an assault on the Union lines, marching from around Winstead Hill in the Nov. 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin.