FRANKLIN, a town of central Tennessee, U.S.A., 20m. S. of Nashville, on the Harpeth river; the county seat of Williamson county. It is on Federal highway 31, and is served by the Louis ville and Nashville railroad. The population was 3,123 in 1920; 3,377 in 193o. During the Civil War Franklin was the scene of a minor engagement on April To, 1863 ; and on Nov. 3o, 1864, of one of the fiercest battles of the war, when the Confederate gen eral, J. B. Hood, with an army of 27,00o, attacked Gen. Scho field, whose forces numbered about 28,00o. The engagement was indecisive, but the losses were very heavy: 6,5oo on the Confeder ate, 2,326 on the Union side.