Tennessee: Tennessee Civil War Trails
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Carthage's historic courthouse square was the control center of a major Federal base from 1863 to 1865 in the fight to control the Upper CumberlandRiver region. When Union Gen. George Crook arrived in Carthage to stay in 1863, he commandeered the courthouse…
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After Union Gen. Ebenezer Dumont's troops surprised Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's command at Lebanon on May 5, 1862, Morgan's men escaped north and rushed toward the Cumberland River. Hotly pursued,the Confederates succeeded in reaching Rome first. Lu…
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On this site was the home of Robert H. Hatton that was unfortunately destroyed by fire after the war. He was born in October in 1826, but early in his life his family moved to Lebanon. He graduated from Cumberland University and the studied law at Cumberlan…
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You are standing on Seawell Hill, where Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler's cavalrymen camped during their raid through Tennessee. They had destroyed parts of the railroad to Chattanooga then moved north up the Tennessee River Valley, damaging the railroad an…
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In April 1862, after the Battle of Shiloh, Confederate Col. John Hunt Morgan planned a raid through Tennessee and Kentucky to sever Union supply lines. Morgan let the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry from Corinth, Mississippi, into Tennessee and engaged with several Fe…
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Rosemont, a Greek Revival—style mansion completed in the 1840s, was the home of Judge Josephus Conn Guild, a state senator and representative who also served as a Lt. Colonel in the 2nd Tennessee Mounted Volunteers during the Seminole War. He hosted s…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1AMR_gallatin-public-square_Gallatin-TN.html
Early in 1861, Gallatin and Sumner County were divided over secession, but after the fall of Fort Sumter, residents voted almost ten to one in favor. Support of the Confederacy never wavered, as Capt. Benjamin S. Nicklin, 13th Battery, Indiana Light Artille…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1AMZ_trousdale-place_Gallatin-TN.html
This was the home of William Trousdale (1790-1872), governor of Tennessee (1849-1851) and U.S. minister to Brazil (1853-1857). During the Union army's occupation of Gallatin from 1862 to 1870, its commanders regarded former governor Trousdale as the county'…
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This is the home of four brothers who served in the Confederate army, as did many of Sumner County's young men. Their father, William F. Clark, a Protestant minister, died in 1847 at the age of forty-one, leaving his wife, Emma Douglass Clark, to rear the b…
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Cragfont was the home of Confederate Maj. George W. Winchester (1822-1878), his mother, Susan Winchester, his wife, Malvina H. Gaines, and their children. Their surviving letters and diaries describe life during Union occupation.
George Winchester remai…