Winstead Hill Park is a part of the Battle of Franklin National Landmark on the south side of Franklin, TN in Williamson County along highway US31 (Columbia Pike).
I should have posted this yesterday. On Nov. 30, 1864, Confederate General Hood stood here to observe the Union troops two miles away. Starting here, many regiments consisting of 19,000 soldiers formed a line two miles wide to drive the union back. At 4pm from the hill, the signal was given launching the single largest attack in the Civil War. The Federal soldiers never forgot the the sheer spectacle of the grays sweeping across the fields near here with one Union soldier writing, "We were spellbound with admiration, although they were our hated foes."
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