Related: Franklin author Robert Hicks receives Civil War preservation award The Palm Beach, Florida, native arrived in Tennessee, where his grandparents were from, in his 20s. He first found a ...

Local author and preservationist Robert Hicks received a national award recently for his work to preserve pieces of the Civil War battlefield in Franklin. Hicks received the reward during the ...

Robert Hicks, whose best-selling novel “The Widow of the South,” set during the 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, evoked the bravery and bloodshed that he sought to memorialize as a leading ...