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The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign [3] [4] that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War.
Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee & Kentucky (1864) United States of America vs Confederate States of America Battle of Salyersville: April 13–14, 1864 Paintsville & Salyersville, Kentucky: American Civil War 24+ United States of America vs Confederate States of America Battle of Mt. Sterling: June 8–9, 1864 Mt. Sterling, Kentucky ...
Kentucky-Northern Tennessee, 1864 Southern Tennessee-Alabama, 1864. At the conclusion of his successful Atlanta campaign, Sherman occupied the city of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, and Hood, who was forced to evacuate the city, regrouped at Lovejoy's Station. For almost a month, the normally aggressive Sherman took little action while his men ...
Nashville Campaign November–December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24–27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15–16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there until March 1865. Operations in eastern Tennessee March 15 – April 22.
Kentucky Lake, created with the completion of Kentucky Dam in 1944, covers a 184-mile (296 km) stretch of the river between Kentucky Dam (near Paducah) and Pickwick Landing Dam, near the Tennessee-Alabama border to the south. Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park is situated along the western bank of Kentucky Lake, approximately 80 miles (130 km ...
The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army .
Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War.It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
3rd Tennessee Cavalry (Forrest's Old Regiment) 7th Tennessee Cavalry; 12th Tennessee Cavalry; 14th Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Raleigh R. White; 15th Tennessee Cavalry; Biffle's Brigade Col Jacob B. Biffle 4th Tennessee Cavalry; 9th Tennessee Cavalry; 10th Tennessee Cavalry; Buford's Division (Detached; at Murfreesboro) BG Abraham Buford. Bell's Brigade