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The Bridge Burners: A True Adventure of East Tennessee's Underground Civil War — historical novel by Cameron Judd; A Hero In Homespun: A Tale of the Loyal South — William E. Barton's 1897 novel about the bridge burners; Famous Plainsmen — article about James Keeling (Keelan), the Confederate defender of the Strawberry Plains bridge
Strawberry Plains is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson, Knox, and Sevier counties in the State of Tennessee, United States. [4] Before 2010, it was treated by the United States Census Bureau as a census county division .
The battle continued until after dark with the Union forces occupying roughly the same battle line as when the fighting started. Having failed to cross the river to the opposite bank, and fearing that Longstreet's entire force was in front of them, General Parke ordered the Federals to retreat to New Market and Strawberry Plains during the night.
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They struck the railroad at Lenoir's and followed it past Strawberry Plains to Mossy Creek (above the "b" in Strawberry). From there, they returned directly to Boston. On June 14, 1863, Sanders left Mount Vernon, Kentucky with 1,500 Union mounted soldiers from the following units.
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 ...
The Lotz House was recently gifted with a rare Civil War artifact that ... Savage was born in 1838 in Davidson County and enlisted in the 11 th Tennessee Infantry. He fought in the battles of ...
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 ...