Civil War Combat Battle of  Franklin 

The Salt Point Rangers & The Calico Boys, 

as guests of the Liberty Rifles, participated in the film production of a episode of the history channels' 

civil war combat series  to air in the FALL of 2002

the battle of Franklin

Based on the books; 

Embrace an Angry Wind,  

THE CONFEDERACY'S LAST HURRAH  BY  Wiley Sword 

and 

Co. Aytch, by Sam Watkins 

Tom Horton as Colonel Emerson Opdyke led a counter charge to retake the trenches in front of the Carter house

The Carter house set with trenches in fore ground and right

Sean Horton at the Lady house in Gettysburg, used as a Confederate hospital during the battle, used as the site of the filming of the Franklin episode  

Jamie Bosket in both his Federal and Rebel traps

Percy Clark as a Federal officer

Percy Clark as  General Hiram Grandbury, one of 15 out of 28 Confederate generals to die at the Battle of Franklin

       Carl Kramer                    Sean Horton              Tom & Sean                         

SAC company of the Liberty rifles spoons on camera

A Father & Son, the father at his first event 

Casey Osgood 's make up, he is mortally wounded and found by a mortally wounded brother in his scene . 

    Among the some 7000 dead & maimed, two brothers find each other

   as rebel officers   

  with the colors in the trenches

Robby Shorr and Percy Clark , two of the dead Confederate generals laid out on the porch

     Calicos and Phoenix Iron Pards in front of the Carter house set, which blew over during the night.                  

      in the trenches

      SAC, Calicos, and some Phoenix  Iron Pards in the trenches

               "Generally speaking boys, I think old Hood is insane" "Just cause them damn Yanks slipped by us , now we have ta charge them works?"                                            

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                   SAVE THE FRANKLIN BATTLEFIELD

                        the BATTLE OF fRANKLIN

                         CARTER HOUSE MUSEUM