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The Battle of Columbia was a series of military actions that took place November 24–29, 1864, in Maury County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It concluded the movement of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood 's Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Tennessee River in northern Alabama to Columbia ...
Shiloh, 1862: The First Great and Terrible Battle of the Civil War (2011) Jones, James B., ed. Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts (2011) 286 pp; Lepa, Jack H. The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862–1863 (2007) McCaslin, Richard B., ed. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War (2006)
In November 1864, Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge undertook an expedition into East Tennessee from Virginia to secure the countryside for food and forage and to drive the Federals from the area. A Federal force under the command of Brig. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem had advanced beyond Greeneville , but retired in front of the larger Confederate force ...
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Columbia was the site of Jackson College from 1837 until it was burned, along with most of Jackson, by Union troops during the American Civil War. Columbia had five documented lynchings in the 20th century. [7] In 1924 a black man was shot and killed in the courthouse after his sentence was commuted, by the brother of his victim.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
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