Benjamin F. Cheatham

Benjamin Franklin Frank Cheatham was a Tennessee planter, California gold miner, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served in the Army of Tennessee, inflicting many casualties on Sherman at Kennesaw Mountain, but taking the blame for General Schofields escape at Spring Hill, a major factor in the Confederate defeat at Franklin.

Cheatham was born in Nashville, Tennessee on a plantation called Westover, which in its prime consisted of three thousand acres . He was born into two of the finest and prominent families of the middle Tennessee elite of the slave society. His mother was descended from General James Robertson, the founder of Nashville and father of Middle Tennessee, who came from Virginia. The Cheathams had been in middle Tennessee for two generations and become established as plantation owners, lawyers, doctors and mayors of the city.

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