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To Riggins Hill CLARKSVILLE MURFREESBORO and Fort Defiance Scroll flask and .36 caliber Navy Colt bullet mold N found at Camp Trousdale . S P R site in Sumner County. IN G Stones River 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 Tennessee 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 Battle of Stones River, 1863 – Courtesy 421 81 Library of Congress 129 High Ground 441 Abingdon Park “Battle of Shiloh” – 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 Lafayette City (Multiple Sites) 127 (Lincoln and the 33 Blountville 79 Red Boiling Springs Affair at Travisville 431 65 Portland Indian Mountain Cumberland Gap) 70 11W (See Inset) Clarksville 76 (Palace Park) Clay Co. Museum Celina State Park Surgoinsville Fort Defiance (See Inset) (Donaldson Cemetery) Pall Mall 25W 67 White 52 421 House 27 Bluff City C Monroe Bluff City Tiptonville 22 Paris Landing Rogersville Bridge Burners State Park Fort Donelson NB Springfield 109 53 (Camp Myers) Big Creek (Island No. 10) U 31E Jamestown Huntsville 63 (Multiple Sites) 347 Union City 24 (Multiple Sites) Hartsville Morgan’s Gap 25E M 52 (Museum of Scott Co. ) 33 19W 13 31W Gallatin Cragfont (Multiple Sites) Ohio Raid B 111 Battle of 26 (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 Ford 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 Whites Creek Rome Bethlehem State Park 11W Battles of S Promise Land V (Fontanel) 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 Andrew Johnson NHS State Park State Park on the Mississippi River near Fort Wright, 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 Belle Meade Plantation 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 Winstead Hill (See Inset) Battlefield Mountain) 129 441 Sevierville Skirmish at I 40 70 Sam Davis Home) Cumberland 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 Bath Springs 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 Minor Hill Sherman’s House 18 125 Tennessee River Museum) R 41 27 Collierville A 24 Fallen Timbers P (Sam Davis Crossing Courtesy Knoxville Chapter 89, Pink Palace E Old Jail Benton (Battle of Collierville C 28 Suck Johnston’s A Capture Site) 65 United Daughters of the Confederacy 128 R Fayetteville Museum Museum and Chalmers’s Raid) Grand T Creek LaGrange Z Cleveland Last Bivouac E (Multiple Sites) Cowan Germantown H 166 74 Junction C 98 64 69 T Railroad CHATTANOOGA (Multiple Sites) A Red Bank N 43 Sugar Creek (Multiple Sites) Battle of Moscow 57 431 Museum (See Inset) Davis Bridge 13 Engagement 64 (Multiple Sites) Battlefield 22 Pickwick Elkton Tennessee Valley Railroad Landing SP Five Points Bridge State Park 11 231 16 Chickamauga Depot 411 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) . M . 27 E Franklin Occupied MEMPHIS 51 St. Paul’s McPhail’s CHATTANOOGA 40 Office Masonic Chattanooga To Colt revolving rifle, used Nov. 3, 1863, Episcopal Sherman’s Church Hall To Suck Creek by 2nd Iowa Cav. at Collierville, Shelby Co. Steamboats tied up at Ross’s Landing in Chattanooga, Crossing 40 and Red Bank Brown’s 240 Courtesy Norm Flayderman 96 Fort with Cameron Hill looming in the background along with Lookout Mountain to the left Ferry . Granger ST Ross’s Landing AIN Courtesy Library of Congress Mississippi River Magevney House . M W . N L Museum at Mud Island Headquarters Row 72 Y River Park D R D Health E Carter M E To Lotz UR Cameron 58 Sciences Park FRE V House ESBO Tennessee House RO R I Hill D. Valley Railroad and 0510 15 20 79 R Raiders 55 Chickamauga Depot H E Hunt-Phelan A Mileage Scale Home Carter R E 240 P S College Hill 78 Cotton Gin Crutchfield E S Hospital 64 T House E Civil War Trails Site Fort Pickering Site Elmwood H Orchard Cemetery 51 N Knob at Chickasaw 31 Collins Farm R 27 11 N Other Civil War Site Heritage Park L I 61 E EW V Kurz and Allison, “Battle of Franklin” N IS E E 55 A B L U R R Courtesy Williamson County Historical Society T Chattanooga Gen. John Hunt Morgan and his wife, Jar made by bridge-burner N G Hood’s Campaign Driving Route O AVE T Choo Choo Mattie Ready Morgan Christopher A. Haun N R A C Courtesy Library of Congress Courtesy Donahue Bible Collection, National Park Eastern Flank Battle Park Mohawk, Tenn.
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