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Pulaski was founded in 1809. During the Civil War, after the Union took control of Tennessee in 1862, thousands of African Americans left plantations and farms to join their lines for refuge. [citation needed] The Army set up a contraband camp in Pulaski to help house the freedmen and their families, feed them, and put them to work. In addition ...
The Battle of Anthony's Hill (also known as the Battle of King's Hill [1] or the Battle of Devil's Gap) was an engagement that occurred December 25, 1864, in Tennessee during the American Civil War between combined Confederate cavalry and infantry units commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Union forces commanded by Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson.
Sam Davis (October 6, 1842 – November 27, 1863) [1] was a Confederate soldier executed by Union forces in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the American Civil War.He is popularly known as the Boy Hero of the Confederacy, although he was 21 when he died.
Scout to Florence, Alabama, July 20–25, 1863 (detachment). Duty at Nashville and on Nashville & Northwestern Railroad at Pulaski, Tennessee, until November 1864. Duck River April 22, 1864. Scout in Hickman and Maury Counties May 2–12. Lincoln County June 14. Scout from Pulaski to Florence, Alabama, July 20–25 (detachment). Triune August 3 ...
American Civil War George Washington Gordon (October 5, 1836 – August 9, 1911) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . After the war, he practiced law in Pulaski, Tennessee , where the Ku Klux Klan was formed.
Organized at Decatur, Alabama, and mustered in on March 31, 1864.The regiment was placed on garrison duty at Pulaski, Tennessee, to May, 1864.It was redesignated as the 106th United States Colored Infantry Regiment on May 16, 1864 when USCT units received federal designations.
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?
Duty at Pulaski, Tennessee, and Decatur, Alabama, guarding Northern Alabama Railroad by detachments September 2, 1864: Action at Elk River September 25, 1864: Sulphur Branch Trestle September 26, 1864: Richland Creek, near Pulaski, Tennessee September 26 – 27, 1864: Repulse of Forest's attack on Pulaski, Tennessee October 1–2, 1864: Athens ...