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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F16_fighting-for-trenton_Trenton-TN.html
(preface)Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through West Tennessee, Dec. 15, 1862 - Jan. 3, 1863, destroying railroads and severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky and Vicksburg, Mississipp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F12_fighting-for-trenton_Trenton-TN.html
(preface)Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through West Tennessee, Dec. 15, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863, destroying railroads and severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky and Vicksburg, Mississippi.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F11_female-collegiate-institute_Trenton-TN.html
Friendship Lodge No. 22, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, founded the Odd Fellows Female Collegiate Institute here in 1852. During the Civil War, Federal troops occupied the building, a two-story brick structure, and used it as a hospital. An acc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13WG_c-s-a-camp-trenton_Trenton-TN.html
Located 1.4 miles west of this site, Camp Trenton was a Confederate Army training camp in Gibson County. Colonel M. R. Hill's 47th Tennessee Infantry departed from Camp Trenton by train on Sunday, April 6, 1862, and arrived at the Battle of Shiloh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DF_fighting-for-trenton_Trenton-TN.html
(Preface):Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through West Tennessee, Dec. 15, 1862 - Jan. 3, 1863, destroying railroads an severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky and Vicksburg, Mississipp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DD_gibson-county-confederate-memorial_Trenton-TN.html
Erected to the memory of our Confederate Soldiers by the Russell-Hill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. "Lest We Forget"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CH_david-crockett_Trenton-TN.html
Pioneer — Statesman — HeroBorn August 17, 1786 · Died March 6, 1836 Served three terms in the Congress of theUnited States while a resident of this county.Emigrated to Texas in 1835, and was killedat the Alamo fighting for th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11BY_gibson-county-courthouse_Trenton-TN.html
The Gibson County Courthouse, built in 1899, is the fourth one to have occupied this site. The first courthouse was a log structure built in 1824, the year following the organization of the county, a process commenced by David Crockett, who was th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOVE_forrest-at-trenton_Trenton-TN.html
Advancing along this route from Spring Creek in Madison County, December 20, 1862, part of Forrest's Brigade under his command captured the Federal garrison at Trenton, entrenched around the station on the west side of town. Meanwhile a detachment…
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