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Fort Negley was a fortification built by Union troops after the capture of Nashville, Tennessee during the American Civil War, located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the city center. It was the largest inland fort built in the United States during the war.
Visitor center museum with Civil War artifacts and exhibits, remains of two Civil War forts and battlefield Fort Negley: Nashville: Davidson: Middle: Military: Includes visitor center with exhibits about the 1862 surrender of Nashville and the building of Fort Negley Fort Loudoun: Vonore: Monroe: East: Military
The Confederate victory at the Battle of Fort Pillow (April 1864) ended in the killing of 229 Black Union soldiers out of 262 engaged in the battle. This slaughter by the Southern troops under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest has been labeled a massacre. "Remember Fort Pillow!" became a battle cry among Black soldiers for the remainder of the Civil ...
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails. Sites on the trail include battlefields, museums, historic sites, forts and cemeteries.
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A developer has unearthed human remains that could be two centuries old while digging to lay the foundation of a new Nashville project not far from a Civil War fort and a cemetery dating back to 1822.
Name County Built Notes 05 Fort Adair: Knox: 1788 or 1791: Location unknown, destroyed 10 Fort Assumption: Shelby: 1739: 15 Bledsoe's Fort: Sumner: 1781–83: 20 Fort Blount: Jackson: 1794: Site excavated 1989-1994
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