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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.
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.
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 ]
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.
John Hunt Morgan (June 1, 1825 – September 4, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, fought at Shiloh, and then launched a costly raid in Kentucky, which encouraged Braxton Bragg's invasion of that state.
Today, women make up almost 15 percent of active-duty members in the U.S. military, which has remained steady since 2000, according to 2013 Department of Defense data. Two West Point Cadets made history earlier this year when they became the first women to graduate from Army Ranger School.
A middle school cheerleader in Tennessee was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old boy — and now prosecutors are aiming to try him as an adult. Savannah Copeland, a 13-year-old cheerleader at Powell ...