Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, Tuesday, December 6, 1864

Good weather. The battle at Franklin, Tennessee, was a fortunate escape from a disastrous defeat.

It was probably also a damaging blow, perhaps severely so. Nashville can probably hold out. The situation there is interesting with a favorable look for us.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 543