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Follow day-by-day events during Tennessee's Civil War sesquicentennial (2011–2015) National Park Service map showing Civil War Sites in Tennessee; The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (extensive site) Bibliography of Tennessee Civil War Unit Histories at the Tennessee State Library and Archives; The McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Franklin
The Somerville Historic District is a 52 acres (21 ha) historic district in Somerville, Tennessee which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [ 1 ] It included 75 contributing buildings , including the Fayette County Courthouse .
Somerville is a town in Fayette County, Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Memphis metropolitan area . The population was 3,415 at the 2020 census, [ 5 ] up from 3,094 at the 2010 census.
Its county seat is Somerville. [3] The county was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolution. [4] A part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area, Fayette County is culturally alike to the Mississippi Delta and was a major area of cotton plantations dependent on slave labor in the nineteenth century.
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Confederates repulse the Union attack and kill Commander James H. Ward of the Union Potomac Flotilla, the first Union Navy officer killed during the Civil War. July 13, 1861: Battle of Corrick's Ford: West Virginia (Virginia at the time) [A] Union: Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed in the Civil War. July 25, 1861
The larger planters depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans. Infrastructure built to support the housing of slaves during this time still exists in Gallatin. During the American Civil War, most of Tennessee was occupied by Union troops from 1862. This led to a breakdown in civil order in many areas. [4]
Map of Dover Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program "The Confederates set out for Dover and began an attack between 1 and 2 p.m., on February 3. The 800-man garrison, under the command of Colonel Abner C. Harding , was in and about the town of Dover where they had chosen camps that commanded the area and ...