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A Union sentry guards the bridge at Strawberry Plains, ca. 1864. In the weeks following the bridge burnings, William Carter returned to Kentucky to continue to pressure Union commanders to invade East Tennessee. William Pickens, Daniel Stover, and Alfred Cate all fled to Kentucky and enlisted in the Union Army. [1]
1861 cartoon map of Scott's plan with caricatures The snake plan was a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War . [ 1 ] Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott , the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the ...
Though it was a Union tactical victory, Willcox's force was too weak to advance any farther. [64] While Sherman's 30,000 advanced on the east bank of the Tennessee River, Brigadier General James G. Spears and three Tennessee Union regiments at Sale Creek advanced on the west bank. On December 3, Spears reached Kingston where he incorporated ...
The Union relied on the Tennessee River as a critical route to supply Federal forces in the state. Supplies were offloaded at Johnsonville and shipped by rail to Nashville. In the fall of 1864 the supplies were principally meant for the Army of the Cumberland , commanded by Thomas.
Wanting to push the Confederates out of their winter headquarters and having received reports of good forage south of the French Broad River, Union forces under Maj. Gen. John G. Parke advanced on Dandridge, near the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad, on January 14, with orders to cross the river and occupy the area for the Federals.
The Confederates stepped up the pace, and some Union prisoners were forced to wade the Cumberland River or one of the smaller creeks. [3] Morgan inflicted 58 Union casualties, at the cost of 139 Confederate; however, he also left the battlefield with 1,844 Union prisoners and a wagon train heavily loaded with captured equipment and supplies.
Twenty-six of Nashville's 40 council members are co-sponsoring a bill that aims to bolster construction worker safety under city-involved contracts.
Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee was a raid conducted by Confederate Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee from December 1862 to January 1863, during the American Civil War. Forrest led an expedition of 1,800 [ 1 ] to 2,500 [ 2 ] men into Union -held West Tennessee to disrupt the supply lines of Major General Ulysses S ...