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Foster attacked at noon and in the four-hour battle shelled the town and initiated a flanking movement, compelling the Confederates to withdraw. Blountville was the initial step in the Union’s attempt to force Confederate Maj. Gen. Sam Jones and his command to retire from East Tennessee. [2] [3]
Blountville is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat [5] of Sullivan County, Tennessee. The population was 3,074 at the 2010 census [ 6 ] and 3,120 at the 2020 census. It is the only Tennessee county seat not to be an incorporated city or town.
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Rousseau's column rode through Blountville, across Sand Mountain, through Oneonta, and across Strait Mountain. On July 12, the raiders caught up with an advance party of the 4th Tennessee at Ashville. Late on July 13, the column crossed the Coosa River at Ten Islands Ford and was joined by 200 more cavalrymen who crossed elsewhere in a ferry boat.
The Knoxville Gazette was the first newspaper published in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the third published west of the Appalachian Mountains. [2] Established by George Roulstone (1767–1804) at the urging of Southwest Territory governor William Blount, the paper's first edition appeared on November 5, 1791. [3]
Gov. Bill Lee and other state and federal officials traveled to northeast Tennessee on Saturday to survey catastrophic flood damage in several counties in the wake of Tropical Storm Helene.
William Bennett Scott Sr. (died 1885) was a pioneering newspaper founder and publisher, mayor, and civil rights campaigner who helped found Freedman’s Normal Institute in Maryville, Tennessee. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was the first African American to run a newspaper in Tennessee and had the only newspaper in Blount County, Tennessee for 10 years. [ 1 ]
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