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The Co. B, 19th Tennessee Infantry Reenactors Honor Guard at the dedication ceremony for a new gravemarker for 1st Lieutenant Robert J. Tipton of the Old Co. B, 19th Tennessee Infantry. A group of Civil War reenactors from Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia represents Company B (Washington County) of the 19th Tennessee Infantry. The ...
May 30, 1974 [2] Fort Pillow State Historic Park is a state park in western Tennessee that preserves the American Civil War site of the Battle of Fort Pillow. The 1,642 acre (6.6 km²) Fort Pillow, located in Lauderdale County on the Chickasaw Bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, is rich in both historic and archaeological significance.
The American Civil War significantly affected Tennessee, with every county witnessing combat. During the War, Tennessee was a Confederate state, and the last state to officially secede from the Union to join the Confederacy. Tennessee had been threatening to secede since before the Confederacy was even formed, but didn’t officially do so ...
Battle of Blountville. Coordinates: 36.533333°N 82.326389°W. Battle of Blountville. Part of the American Civil War. Date. September 22, 1863. Location. Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee. 36°32′00″N 82°19′35″W / 36.533333°N 82.326389°W / 36.533333; -82.326389.
Total unknown, 1,634 captured. The Tullahoma campaign (or Middle Tennessee campaign) was a military operation conducted from June 24 to July 3, 1863, by the Union Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans, and is regarded as one of the most brilliant maneuvers of the American Civil War. Its effect was to drive the Confederates ...
Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 133,001. [2] Its county seat is Jonesborough. [3] The county's largest city and a regional educational, medical and commercial center is Johnson City. Washington County is Tennessee's oldest county, having been established in 1777 ...
Battle of Spring Hill. The Battle of Spring Hill was fought November 29, 1864, at Spring Hill, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood, attacked a Union force under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield as it retreated from Columbia through ...
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign [3][4] that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood and the ...