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The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... In two days at Shiloh, on the banks of the Tennessee River, more American men fell than in all the previous American wars combined.
Now, Grant set up camp on the banks of the Tennessee River, about 20 miles outside ... complete with science to back it up. However, Civil War historians have come to a different conclusion.
GUEST: These are our group of Civil War letters that are from two brothers ... And Lemuel was actually captured on May 17 at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge. Somewhere between 260 and 329 ...
A recent donation of a 1932 book by a local Chattanoogan, TJ Campbell, “The Upper Tennessee” details ... of Tears in 1838, the Civil War, Chattanooga-Knoxville as river towns, etc and other ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Three different sites in Middle Tennessee have been awarded grants by the Tennessee Wars Commission as part of an ongoing effort to preserve Civil War sites of ...
A Memphis, Tennessee ... of a drought-stricken Mississippi River. With river levels at record lows, Riley Bryant said the artifacts — a Civil War-era Union army cartridge box plate and bullets ...
His latest search was no different and led him to the drought-stricken banks of the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee ... including a likely Civil War-era cartridge box plate.
For example, right on the Mississippi River is Tiptonville ... said Park Manager Robby Tidwell in The Tennessee Magazine. During the time of the Civil War, these bluffs were part of the ...
Williamson County's Lotz House Museum was recently gifted with a rare Civil War-era ... enlisted in the 11 th Tennessee Infantry. He fought in the battles of Stone’s River, Chattanooga, Atlanta ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus recently. State law requires excavation any time there ...