Blood Fest: Brigadier Generals Winfield S. Featherston, left, John Adams, and Thomas M. Scott led William Loring’s attack on the Union right flank at Franklin. Colonel Stephens, serving in Featherston’s Brigade, was one of seven of Loring’s 16 regimental commanders wounded during the attack. Six Confederate generals were slain in the battle, including Adams. (Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History)