Opdycke's Brigade - Williamson County Historical Society
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N 35° 55.051 W 086° 52.397
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Williamson County Historical Society - Opdycke's Brigade
Waymark Code: WM8TW
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2006
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Opdycke's Brigade
Col. Emerson Opdycke's Federal brigade was positioned in this area 150 yards north of the Carter House, east and west of Columbia Pike. Without order's the brigade attacked a portion of Cleburne's and Brown's Confederate divisions after they had broken the center of the Federal line. The forces met like "two enormous waves crashing together." In vicious fighting, Opdycke's brigade recaptured the line south of Carter smokehouse and farm office. Repeated attempts failed to recapture a portion of the main line held by the Confederates. Maj. Arthur MacArthur, of the 24th Wisconsin (father of World War II general Douglas MacArthur) went down with severe wounds. Also involved were the 124th Ohio and the 36th, 44th, 73rd and 74th/88th Illinois.
Williamson County Historical Society
John M. Carlson, Ltd., St Paul, MN., Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
Marker reads the same on both sides.