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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 .
Strawberry Plains January 22. Duty in eastern Tennessee until April. Atlanta Campaign May to September 1864. Demonstrations on Dalton May 5–13. Rocky Faced Ridge May 8–11. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Cartersville May 20. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
The 13th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Strawberry Plains, Gallatin and Nashville, Tennessee, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel John K. Miller. Nine companies mustered in at Strawberry Plains on October 28 and November 8, 1863.
On the 26th, we commenced a movement with Hancock's corps and Sheridan's cavalry to the north side by the way of Deep Bottom, where Butler had a pontoon bridge laid. The plan, in the main, was to let the cavalry cut loose and, joining with Kautz's cavalry of the Army of the James, get by Lee's lines and destroy as much as they could of the Virginia Central Railroad, while, in the mean time ...
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 Battle of Bulls Gap took place during the American Civil War from November 11 to November 13, 1864, in Hamblen County and Greene County, Tennessee. Background [ edit ]