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Map of Brentwood Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. Union Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of March 25, 1863, when Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a powerful column, approached the town.
Connelly, Thomas L. Civil War Tennessee: battles and leaders (1979) 106pp; Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861–1862 (2 vol 1967–70); a Confederate army; Cooling, Benjamin Franklin. Fort Donelson's Legacy: War and Society in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862–1863 (1997) Cottrell, Steve. Civil War in Tennessee ...
During the American Civil War, the Union Army in Tennessee lost the Battle of Thompson's Station on March 5, 1863. On March 18, Union colonel Albert S. Hall left Murfreesboro, and went northeast on a reconnaissance mission with 1,300 men. [1] He was supposed to find Confederate brigadier general John Hunt Morgan, whose army had been raiding ...
The Battle of Thompson's Station took place during the American Civil War on March 5, 1863, in Williamson County, Tennessee.. In a period of relative inactivity following the Battle of Stones River, a reinforced Union infantry brigade, under Col. John Coburn, left Franklin to reconnoiter south toward Columbia.
The Battle of Hoover's Gap (24 June 1863) was the principal battle in the Tullahoma Campaign of the American Civil War, in which Union General William S. Rosecrans drove General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates out of Central Tennessee.
The Battle of Brown's Ferry was an engagement of the American Civil War which took place on October 27, 1863, in Hamilton County, Tennessee. [1] During the battle, two Union brigades drove Confederate sharpshooters from the Tennessee River, which allowed supplies to start arriving to the Union army at Chattanooga via the "Cracker Line".
The Battle of Dover, also known as the Second Battle of Fort Donelson, was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring on February 3, 1863, in Stewart County, Tennessee. [ 1 ] Background
The Knoxville campaign [1] was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee, United States, during the fall of 1863, designed to secure control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that linked the Confederacy east and west, and position the First Corps under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet for return to the Army of Northern Virginia.