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A new Civil War trail sign has been installed in Plymouth to honor African-American soldiers who served in the Civil War. The ...
Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last. He died in 1889. He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history.
When the asphalt was removed, the McClung Museum shared that the team found a section of a previously known Civil War trench located next to the museum. East TN teen missing on vacation ...
There were many heroes of the Civil Rights movement in Memphis ... Some established identities in their home city. Sign up for the Tennessee Voices newsletter showcasing opinion across the ...
My name is Josh Roe and this is Tomorrow Town, Tennessee This story begins like all of the great Civil War stories ... the President's supposed to sign that." And retired 4 star General B.B ...
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) – Four historic Middle Tennessee Civil War battlefields are receiving millions of dollars in preservation grants from the Tennessee Historical Commission. According to the ...
A new generation of Civil ... to sign the Ordinance of Secession to protest their nonslaveholding constituents being forced into a new nation they did not support. Sheats spent much of the war ...
Tennessee’s Republican attorney general ... But even before that, Skrmetti has been exceptionally active in waging his culture war battles, inside and across state lines. In January, “Skrmetti and 17 ...
Tennessee was the last of the Southern states to join the Confederacy, and a significant portion of the state’s population remained loyal to the Union throughout the Civil War. Historians talked ...
(WTVF) — It is incredibly rare for Tennessee lawmakers to kick out an elected member of the General Assembly. In fact, it has only happened three times since the Civil War. The most recent time ...
On April 12, Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Fort Sumter, and the first shots of the Civil War were fired. North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee then joined the Confederacy ...