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N found at Camp Trousdale . S P R site in Sumner County. IN G S T Courtesy Pat Meguiar . 41 National Battlefield The Cannon Ball House 96 and Cemetery in Blountville still 41 Oaklands shows shell damage to Mansion KNOXVILLE ST. the exterior clapboard LEGE Recapture of 441 COL 231 Evergreen in the rear of the house. Clarksville Cemetery Clarksville 275 40 in the Civil War Rutherford To Ramsey Surrender of ST. County Knoxville National Cemetery House MMERCE Clarksville CO 41 96 Courthouse Old Gray Cemetery Plantation Customs House Whitfield, Museum Bradley & Co. Knoxville Mabry-Hazen Court House House

231 40 “Drawing Artillery Across the Mountains,” East Saltville 24 Fort History Center Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 21, 1863 (Multiple Sites) Bleak House Sanders Museum 70 60 68 Crew repairing railroad Chilhowie Fort Dickerson 68 track near Murfreesboro 231 after , 1863 – Courtesy 421 81 Library of Congress 129 High Ground 441 Abingdon Park “” – Courtesy Library of Congress 58 41 79 23 58 Gen. George H. Thomas Cumberland 421 Courtesy Library of Congress Gap NHP 58 Tennessee Capitol, Nashville, 1864 Cordell Hull Bristol Courtesy Library of Congress Adams Birthplace (East Hill Cemetery) 51 (Ft. Redmond) Cold Spring School Kingsport Riggins Port Royal Duval-Groves House State Park Mountain Hill State Park City 127 ( and the 33 Blountville 79 Red Boiling Springs Affair at Travisville 431 65 Portland Indian Mountain ) 70 11W (See Inset) Clarksville 76 (Palace Park) Clay Co. Museum Celina State Park Surgoinsville Fort Defiance (See Inset) White (Donaldson Cemetery) Pall Mall 25W 67 421 House Lafayette 27 Bluff City

C Monroe Bluff City Tiptonville 22 Paris Landing 52 Rogersville Bridge Burners State Park Fort Donelson NB Springfield 109 (Multiple Sites) 53 (Camp Myers) Big Creek (Island No. 10) U 31E Huntsville 63 (Multiple Sites) 347 Union City 24 (Multiple Sites) Morgan’s Gap 25E M Hartsville 52 (Museum of Scott Co. ) 33 19W 13 31W Gallatin Cragfont Raid B 111 Battle of 26 (Multiple Sites) (Multiple Sites) Elizabethton E 63 Big Creek T 80 85 81 R (Sam Carter) 49 Moss Wright Park Clark 25 Camp Walker’s Johnson City Dresden E 49 174 Castalian Springs Livingston 52 LaFollette Battle of 70 93 N Erin L (Mansker Creek) House 75 Russellville (Lochridge Mill) Bledsoe (Multiple Sites) Gainesboro Zollicoffer Bean Station Historic Landon 321 N A (Multiple Sites) Big Ridge (Longstreet’s Billet) 48 N Creek SP 127 Jonesborough 321 78 54 E D (Cumberland River State Park Carter Paris 53 111 Norris Dam S R Campaign and Maynardville Haynes I Rome Bethlehem State Park 11W Battles of S Promise Land V Hendersonville (Rome Ferry) Jackson County (Multiple Sites) Davy Crockett Birthplace E 231 Methodist Blue Springs Union and Confederate gunboat battle 13 School Harpeth E (Multiple Sites) Granville Court House) Morristown Roan Mountain 19E 22 641 E Shoals R Church 27 Jefferson City NHS State Park State Park on the River near , 45W St. Capitol 70 61 61 (Multiple Sites)

R Carthage (Mossy Creek May 10, 1862 – Courtesy Library of Congress 46 The Hermitage Lebanon (Multiple Sites) 56 Monterey I & Museum (Multiple Sites) Engagement) Kimbrough’s Tusculum College

51 V White Fort (Multiple Sites) 70N Depot 62 Frozen Head 33 Pottertown E Yellow Charlotte Greeneville

McKenzie Nathan Bedford Kingston NASHVILLE Blaine’s Crossroads Bridge-Burners R Bluffs Negley State Park 25W R (Multiple Sites) Creek Clover Bottom Farm Crossroads (Multiple Sites) 155 Forrest SP Waverly Montgomery Station Springs 441 26 E 45E and Gertrude (Fort Hill) 70 Bell S.P. 53 40 Cookeville 92 Battle of V (Railroad Depot) Oliver Springs Janeway Cabin 11E I Camden Johnsonville Hay’s Ferry 19W R Dyersburg McNairy’s 840 Wartburg (Multiple Sites) Trenton HSP 41 Alexandria 62 70 I (Courthouse) 48 Dickson Attack Shy’s 84 (Multiple Sites) 79 ALT Travellers 111 23 P (Clement RR Hill 104 70 96 431 Rest LaVergne 70N 40 Dandridge Parrottsville P Huntingdon New Johnsonville Museum) France Ramsey (Multiple Sites) I KNOXVILLE (Multiple Sites) (Multiple Sites) (Mary Kate 70 Cemetery 61 Oak Ridge House S Crossville (See Inset) Holly Tree Gap Patterson House) S 96 70 Sparta Kingston Farragut Plantation I 40 Smyrna Smithville Pleasant Hill (Roane Co. Folklife S Franklin 411

100 (Depot and Stones River (DeKalb Co. CH) (Affair at Cumberland Couthouse) Museum S Clarksburg

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840 Oaklands 56 Rock House (Walters State Jones Cove M Pigeon Forge Alamo Parker’s Thompson Woodbury Mountain Community College) Crossroads Mansion Farragut’s (The Old Mill) (Cageville) Station 70S State Park Birthplace 79 (Multiple Sites) 40 Murfreesboro Lenoir City Cosby (See Inset) (Multiple Sites) 321 Rock Island Spencer R Friendsville Maryville 321 Capt. Edwin 641 101 E 31 ALT State Park (Burritt College) 55 Fort Pillow Natchez Centerville 68 V Allen’s Co. 87 Trace 50 Rippavilla 31 127 I Historic SP Henning (Hickman Co. Courthouse) Spring Hill 70S 30 R Loudon Gatlinburg 40 412 State Park Plantation National Campground 19 Salem Cemetery Forrest Philadelphia (Railroad (Multiple Sites) Brownsville E Greenback Battlefield Perry Co. Boyhood McMinnville Spring City E Bridge) 61 (Multiple Sites) Lexington 100 231 Jackson Courthouse Home (See Inset) Cumberland (Rhea Co. Spartans) S 28 Caverns S (Civil War Museum Parsons Hohenwald Sam Watkins 24 Sweetwater Morganton Casey 412 Fall Creek Falls E Depot at The Carnegie) (Memorial Park) (Lewis Co. Courthouse) 53 N 68 Crossing 59 223 Jones 412 Columbia State Park N Covington Village 99 27 Great Tomotley Ford Scotts Hill 13 ALT E 11 Denmark Decaturville 41 55 Pikeville T Craighead Cave Forts Randolph 22 Mount Pleasant 111 (Presbyterian Britton (The Bigby Greys) St. John’s Shelbyville Courthouse 63 and Wright 178 14 Cedar Grove C.S. 30 Church) Lane Church (Bedford Co. Courthouse) 75 Niota Madisonville 641 Iron Furnace Cemetery Hurst’s Raid 79 100 166 Manchester Depot 411 (Monroe County Doe Creek 114 Farmington (Multiple Sites) Courthouse) at Barretville 138 65 51 Henderson School 245 56 Tullahoma 18 (Multiple Sites) 228 Summertown Lewisburg Decatur (Multiple Sites) 68 40 (Fouche Springs (Marshall Co. 55 Dunlap (Meigs Co. CH) Tellico Arlington Clifton Waynesboro Engagement) 41 (Davies Manor) Chickasaw 128 Courthouse) Plains Meeman-Shelby 269 114 (Multiple Sites) (Multiple Sites) 43 31 Forest State Park 76 State Park 45 Battle of Calhoun 64 Cornersville 411 (Visitor Gateway) Campbellsville (Jake Donelson) Metro Lynchburg/ MEMPHIS Bolivar Moore County Coker (See Inset) 64 Adamsville Monteagle Creek 13 Courthouse 58 64 ALT Lairdland Tims Ford SP Charleston 64 31 127 Savannah Lawrenceburg Farm House 431 11 (Multiple Sites) 40 Collinwood Y Winchester Hiwassee/Ocoee Kirby Farm (Cherry Mansion and A Shiloh NMP W Pulaski 50 ALT 41 Scenic River SP Bleak House, Knoxville, circa 1874 Selmer K Sherman’s House 18 125 Museum) R 41 27 Collierville A 24 Fallen Timbers P Crossing Courtesy Knoxville Chapter 89, Pink Palace E Minor Hill Old Jail Benton ( C 28 Suck Johnston’s A 11 65 United Daughters of the Confederacy 128 R (Sam Davis Fayetteville Museum Museum and Chalmers’s Raid) Grand T Creek LaGrange Z Cleveland Last Bivouac E (Multiple Sites) Cowan Germantown H Capture Site) 166 74 Junction C 98 64 69 T Railroad CHATTANOOGA (Multiple Sites) A 43 Red Bank (Multiple Sites) Battle of Moscow 57 N 431 Museum (See Inset) 13 64 (Multiple Sites) 22 Pickwick Elkton Tennessee Valley Railroad Landing SP Five Points Sugar Creek Bridge 231 411 Engagement 16 Chickamauga Depot Raccoon Mountain 61 78 72 55 45 Soldier 53 Tourist Corinth Harlinsdale Lookout Mountain FRANKLIN Farm 76 Chickamauga & . 72 T 75 “Execution of Jacob Harmon and His Son Henry, S Chattanooga NMP IN A 59 Unionist bridge-burners,” from Parson Brownlow’s Book (1862)

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C Courtesy Library of Congress Courtesy Donahue Bible Collection, National Park Eastern Flank Battle Park Mohawk, Tenn. To 76 Information or Welcome Center Winstead Hill 24 McGavock’s Union Lt. Charles R. Ellet approaches Memphis to demand surrender, Harper’s Weekly, June 28, 1862 Confederate Cemetery Chattanooga National Landmark Grove Creek WAR IN MIDDLE AND HOOD’S CAMPAIGN WAR IN NASHVILLE uch of the fighting in Middle and West field. Rosecrans held on and over the next two State Capitol nion Gen. William T. Sherman and argely Unionist East Tennessee was strate- Belle Meade MTennessee was focused not only on days seriously bloodied Bragg’s army. Federal Plantation Uhis army occupied , Georgia, Lgically important for Cumberland Gap (the the railroads but also on the Mississippi, cannon fire decimated the final Confederate Peach on September 2, 1864, after defeating gateway to , , and Tennessee) Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers. They were attack on the afternoon of January 2. The Orchard Hill Confederate Gen. and the and the rail lines that connected Bristol, Knox- Shy’s Hill Blountville watery avenues of invasion for Federal forces, Battle of Stones River resulted in more than Travellers . Sherman rested his (Multiple Sites) ville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta, as well as Paris the keys to splitting the Confederacy. 23,000 casualties out of about 81,000 soldiers 31 Rest army for several weeks and planned his next Kingsport Memphis and Richmond. President Abraham Landing SP Holly Indian Mountain Harrogate Bristol The first significant Union victories in engaged. A few days later Bragg retreated moves. When Hood began ranging northwest 25W Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson, a native 79 Tree Gap State Park Battle of 25E 11W Paris West Tennessee occurred on the Tennessee south to Tullahoma, and Rosecrans occupied Franklin against Sherman’s supply lines, Sherman Big Creek Walker’s Bean Station 19W of the region, Tennessee’s military governor. 75 and Cumberland Rivers in February 1862, Murfreesboro. U.S. forces built the massive Winstead (Multiple Sites) dispatched troops to Nashville under Gen. Gap Ford 81 Johnson Landon Gen. Samuel P. Carter, a U.S. Naval Academy 641 Hill Huntsville Big Ridge SP Blaine’s Russellville City Carter Confederate infantry and artillery Gen. Albert SidneyMcKenzie John- when a Federal army-navy expedition under Fortress Rosecrans to guard the railroad and Gen. John M. Schofield George H. Thomas. The lines became less Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside Norris Battles of graduate, gained fame in East Tennessee as a To Nathan Bedford Thompson’s Dam SP Crossroads Blue Springs Haynes firing on Union gunboats ston, killed at Battle of Waverly Gen. Ulysses S. captured Forts Henry to serve as a supply station. Courtesy Library of Congress Station critical to Sherman on November 15, when Courtesy Library of Congress cavalry raider. Ironically, the Federals held Union City Forrest SP Frozen Head Morristown Courtesy U.S. Naval Historical Center Shiloh, April 6, 1862 (Fort Hill) Maynardville and Donelson. Henry, on the Tennessee, was Middle and West Tennessee experienced he began the “March to the Sea” to open 27 State Park Kimbrough’s Greeneville most of the secessionist areas, while the Con- 45W Courtesy Library of Congress Camden Spring Hill Jefferson City (Multiple Sites) Roan To Dyersburg the first to fall on February 6. Donelson, on U.S. military occupation, foraging expeditions 65 more secure lines and destroy Confederate Monterey 441 Crossroads Pottertown federates dominated the Unionist parts. Many ALT Depot 25W Battle of Bridge-Burners Mountain Tiptonville (Courthouse) 70 the Cumberland, surrendered on February 16. by both sides, and Confederate cavalry raids Rippavilla resources. Rather than pursue Sherman, France 11E Dandridge State Park Unionists who burned railroad bridges in 1861 (Island No. 10) Huntington Johnsonville HSP Plantation Cemetery Wartburg Hay’s Ferry Trenton (Multiple Sites) Several Confederate units escaped, including on railroads and Union garrisons. Forrest and on November 22 Hood moved north from Crossville KNOXVILLE Ramsey House were quickly seized and executed. 412 Clarksburg New Johnsonville Battle of Stones River – Courtesy Library of Congress Parrottsville 26 (Multiple Sites) 31 70 Farragut Plantation R Col. and his cavalry. John Hunt Morgan, usually serving with the to Tennessee, hoping to draw Kingston Blant’s Hill Skirmish at Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside occu- 79 Columbia Pleasant 40 Farragut’s 25 E Parker’s 40 Sparta 411 Sevierville Jones Cave V The first large-scale battle in West Ten- Army of Tennessee, attacked Federal supply Athenaeum Federal attention from the Deep South and Hill Birthplace pied Knoxville in September 1863, while I Crossroads Artillery Cumberland R 51 Rectory Loudon Lenoir City (Multiple Sites) 70 Alamo (Multiple Sites) nessee occurred near Pittsburg Landing on the plies following. In December, however, Forrest lines and intimidated Tennessee Unionists. perhaps to invade Kentucky. The two largest Spencer Mt. SP Confederate Gen. occupied I Maryville Pigeon 321 P Fort Pillow Mount Capt. Edwin (Cageville) 70 Natchez Tennessee River. Better known as the Battle of launched a raid into West Tennessee, destroying Forrest guarded the Confederate left flank St. John’s armies in the region thus marched away Spring Philadelphia Forge Chattanooga. Union Gen. William S. Rose- P Historic SP Trace SP Pleasant City National Campground Allen’s Co. I Casey Jones Salem Cemetery Perry Co. Shiloh, the two-day fight on April 6–7, 1862, was railroads and severing Grant’s supply line. For- early in 1863 while Morgan covered the right Church from each other instead of fighting. In crans forced Bragg out. After the Battle of Brownsville Village Parsons Sweetwater Depot Morganton Crossing 40 S Battlefield (Multiple Sites) Courthouse almost a Confederate victory on the first day. rest fought victoriously at Lexington, captured flank. Forrest fought in Mississippi and West Tennessee, however, Thomas sent Union Fall Creek Chickamauga, Georgia, the Federals occupied S Jackson Falls SP Niota Great Craighead Cave

I Gen. marched north from Trenton and Union City, and ranged into Ken- Tennessee after a disagreement with Bragg Gen. John M. Schofield’s division to Pikeville Chattanooga, which Bragg then besieged, Lexington R 412 Depot S Courthouse

E tucky. He raided back through Tennessee, then Summertown Lairdland 127 Madisonville S Covington Scotts Hill Corinth, Mississippi, and struck Grant’s army, during the Chickamauga Campaign. delay Hood’s advance at Columbia and dispatching Gen. to attack I Denmark V Cedar Grove Farm House 11 411 Forts Randolph Britton 27 (Presbyterian I Iron Furnance overrunning the camp and pushing the Federals evaded defeat at Parker’s Crossroads. Grant Because of the frequent and successful Spring Hill. Schofield then fell back Dunlap 75 Knoxville. The Federals broke Bragg’s siege M and Wright Henderson Hiwassee/Ocoee Tellico 79 Church) Lane R 40 Doe Creek almost into the river. Johnston, wounded while changed his supply base to Memphis; he finally Confederate raids, the Federals correctly to Franklin. The bloodbath there on Charleston Scenic River SP Plains at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, compel- Meeman- Barretville School E 31 ShelbyForest S E Clifton encouraging his troops, bled to death from a sev- captured Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. suspected collusion with the local population. 43 November 30 crippled Hood’s force, but (Multiple Sites) 74 ling him to retreat, and Longstreet likewise State Park 45 S 114 Coker Creek Arlington E Waynesboro ered artery. The next day, Grant counterattacked, An especially bloody battle occurred in Civilian spies and Confederate scouts— the Confederates followed Schofield to Red Sherman’s suffered defeat at Knoxville. By the end of Chickasaw N Suck Bank Crossing 64 Benton 19 MEMPHIS N forcing the Confederates back to Corinth. at Murfreesboro, December such as Confederate Sam Davis, who was Lawrenceburg the outskirts of Nashville and Thomas’s the year, East Tennessee was firmly in Union State Park E Adamsville Creek Cleveland 74

(Multiple Sites ) 64 T 64 Federal forces captured New Orleans at 31, 1862–January 2, 1863. Confederate Gen. captured and executed—provided valuable strong defenses. Hood besieged the city for hands, and the rail line to Georgia was open. Collinwood (Multiple Sites) Bolivar the end of April 1862 and occupied Memphis in Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee occupied the information. In addition, bushwhackers and Pulaski the next two weeks. On –16, the In May 1864, Gen. William T. Sherman used Collierville Savannah Gen. John CHATTANOOGA (Battle of Collierville Selmer (Cherry Mansion and June, securing the lower and upper reaches of country around Murfreesboro after his invasion guerrilla units on each side attacked military Bell Hood Federals sallied forth from their defenses Raccoon Chattanooga as the platform for his Atlanta Tennessee River Museum) Mountain 76 and Chalmer’s Raid) LaGrange Fallen Timbers the Mississippi River. In October, Grant began of Kentucky and the . units and civilians, sometimes as a military 65 Courtesy Library Shiloh NMP 9898 Five and crushed Hood’s army, effectively ending Caverns Chickamauga & campaign. No other large-scale battles Germantown of Congress Chattanooga NMP Depot an to capture Vicksburg, Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans’s Army of the tactic and sometimes to settle personal Points his campaign as the remnants of the Army of occurred in the region for the rest of the war. Battle of Moscow Johnston’s Pickwick Grand Junction Last Bivouac Landing SP Mississippi. He marched from La Grange in West Cumberland advanced from Nashville. During scores. Confederate was the Tennessee fled to Tupelo, Mississippi. Some of Late in 1864, the Federals launched cavalry 72 59 27 55 78 Tennessee, down the Mississippi Central Rail- the first day’s fighting, a surprise Confederate most notorious of these raiders. The resulting Sugar Creek the army then joined Gen. Joseph E. Johnston raids against the railroads from East Engagement 75 Gen. James Longstreet road toward Vicksburg with trainloads of sup- flank attack nearly swept the Federals from the resentments lingered for generations. in North Carolina. Courtesy Library of Congress Tennessee into Virginia and North Carolina.

61 January 19 Battle of Mill Springs February 6 Grant captures Fort Henry November 13 Grant begins first from Tennessee February 16 Grant captures Fort Donelson October 17–November 1 Morgan’s Second Kentucky Raid October 1–9 Wheeler’s Sequatchie Valley Raid April 12 Shots fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C. February 25 Federal occupation of Nashville December–January 1863 Carter’s East Tennessee Raid September 19–20 Battle of Chickamauga, Ga. September 2 Sherman captures Atlanta February 1–April 26 Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign, S.C. and N.C. April 15 Lincoln calls for volunteers to suppress “insurrection” March 3 Lincoln appoints Andrew Johnson as Tenn. military governor December 11–January 3, 1863 Forrest’s West Tennessee Raid June 25–July 8 Tullahoma Campaign November 24 Battle of Lookout Mountain April 12 Forrest captures Fort Pillow November 4 June 8 Tennessee secedes April 6–7 Battle of Shiloh September 4–19 Antietam Campaign, Va., Md. Battle of Parker’s Crossroads July 4 Grant captures Vicksburg, Miss. November 25 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga June 15 begins, Va. November 4–December 14 Knoxville Campaign April 2–3 Fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., Lee’s Retreat begins, Va. 1861 July 21 First Battle of Manassas, Va. April 8 Battle of Island No. 10 August 28–30 Second Battle of Manassas, Va. 1 December 31–January863 2, 1863 Battle of Stones River June 10–July 14 , Va., Md., Pa. May 4–June 20 Overland Campaign, Va. November1 15–December 10 Sherman’s865 March to the Sea, Ga. April 9 Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, Va. September 29 Affair at Travisville, first military action in Tennessee June 6 Battle and Federal occupation of Memphis March 4–5 Battle of Thompson’s Station July 1–3 , Pa. November 22–December 25 Hood’s Campaign April 14 assassinates President July Forrest’s First Tennessee Raid November 30 Battle of Franklin April 26 Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee near Durham, N.C. August–October Bragg’s Kentucky invasion December 15–16 May 9 Forrest’s Cavalry Corps surrenders

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