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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]
Shiloh, 1862: The First Great and Terrible Battle of the Civil War (2011) Jones, James B., ed. Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts (2011) 286 pp; Lepa, Jack H. The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862–1863 (2007) McCaslin, Richard B., ed. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War (2006)
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.
In November 1864, Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge undertook an expedition into East Tennessee from Virginia to secure the countryside for food and forage and to drive the Federals from the area. A Federal force under the command of Brig. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem had advanced beyond Greeneville , but retired in front of the larger Confederate force ...
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.
Two people have been charged in the death of a Fort Campbell soldier who was stabbed nearly 70 times last year, police said Saturday. Sofia Rodas, 35, has been charged with first-degree murder and ...
Map of Brentwood Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. Union Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of March 25, 1863, when Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a powerful column, approached the town.
Father's Day is approaching and we're excited to celebrate not only our real dads — but our TV dads as well. Even though we watched them on the television screen, they taught us essential life ...