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Monterey is a town in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 2,850 at the 2010 census. Its population was 2,850 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cookeville, Tennessee micropolitan statistical area .
The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862–1863 (2007) McCaslin, Richard B., ed. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War (2006) McKenzie, Robert Tracy. Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War (2009) on Knoxville excerpt and text search; McKenzie, Robert Tracy. One South or Many?
Throughout the early 19th century, they harnessed the river to power numerous small gristmills. In the years before the Civil War, an iron works and a cotton mill operated along the banks of the river in the vicinity of the current TN-111 bridge. [9] A number of Civil War skirmishes were fought along the Calfkiller River.
This is a list of regiments from the state of Tennessee that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The list of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units is shown separately. Although Tennessee was officially a Confederate state in the conflict, the state would furnish the most units of soldiers for the Union Army ...
Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee was a raid conducted by Confederate Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee from December 1862 to January 1863, during the American Civil War. Forrest led an expedition of 1,800 [ 1 ] to 2,500 [ 2 ] men into Union -held West Tennessee to disrupt the supply lines of Major General Ulysses S ...
John Thomas Wilder (January 31, 1830 – October 20, 1917) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, noted principally for capturing the critical mountain pass of Hoover's Gap during the Tullahoma Campaign in Central Tennessee in June 1863.
The Bridge Burners: A True Adventure of East Tennessee's Underground Civil War — historical novel by Cameron Judd; A Hero In Homespun: A Tale of the Loyal South — William E. Barton's 1897 novel about the bridge burners; Famous Plainsmen — article about James Keeling (Keelan), the Confederate defender of the Strawberry Plains bridge
The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River.A 2005 study of the army states that it "was present at most of the great battles that became turning points of the war—Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, and Atlanta" and "won the decisive battles in the decisive theater of the war."