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A day trip to one of Tennessee's parks near Memphis has historical significance, as the site of one of the most controversial ...
Over the course of the two-day battle, Union forces again crushed Hood's army, effectively ending the Civil War in Tennessee. Unlike many other Civil War battlefields, much of the area where Union ...
> Total number of Civil War battles: 7 > Battles in state with unusually high casualties: 0 > Longest conflict of the Civil War in Alabama: Naval operations at Mobile Bay (Aug. 2, 1864 – Aug. 23 ...
The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern ... that would last years to come. The Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee and the Siege of Vicksburg were ...
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 ...
Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus recently. State law requires ... shortly before the Battle of Fort Sanders ...
While Lem was captured at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge ... Chris had gifted his collection of Civil War letters to the Tennessee State Library & Archives. Brown recalled visiting Chris ...
Lists of registered voters were filled out on the battlefields ... surrounding mail-in voting has roots in the Civil War. Before then, only the state of Pennsylvania granted soldiers absentee ...
more than three times the number fought in Tennessee, the state with the second most battles. (Here is a look at the most violent Civil War battles.) Though over 200,000 Union and Confederate ...