You should check out the Battle of Franklin. Over 60,000 soldiers fought, over 8,500 casualties, including 5 confederate generals, all in a 1.5 x 2 mile area. All in all, a disaster for the south, and a battle that is often overlooked in the history books.
I was just gazing at that last night thinking about it....weather a bit drier and cooler...a break from 4 months of tropical weather
Winstead and Breezy hills block my view to the west but that saddle between them and Lewisburg pike gives me a broad span of view from the Federal guns on the eastern flank overlooking the Harpeth all the over to town center and where the gin woulda been.
and that knoll about 500 yards in front of Carter House where that goofy Federal commander put that brigade out front to run for their lives...can't recall name right this second.
Franklin was a bloodbath....the death rattle...Hood had to have been high and crazy to do it. He could have waited and let them retreat back to Nashville the next morning and prepared for an assault on Nashville but he was still furious over Spring Hill...his fault too..sleeping. Or he coulda let Forrest have the division he wanted to flank them to the west and drive them into the Harpeth rolled up....possible given their weak western flank. Instead he just attacked a fortified position head on and wasted 1000s and 1000s of lives and his best generals.
One of wars bloodiest and least victorious victories I know of. By the way...it was Cox's brilliance for the Yankees not that fellow who got a pistol named after hisself. A mere colonel drew a lot of southern blood that evening due to Hood's irrational endeavor.
/rant