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The Battle of Columbia was a series of military actions that took place November 24–29, 1864, in Maury County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It concluded the movement of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood 's Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Tennessee River in northern Alabama to Columbia ...
Follow day-by-day events during Tennessee's Civil War sesquicentennial (2011–2015) National Park Service map showing Civil War Sites in Tennessee; The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (extensive site) Bibliography of Tennessee Civil War Unit Histories at the Tennessee State Library and Archives; The McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Franklin
The American Civil War brought Virginia's internal problems with eastern and western conflicting state governmental needs to resolution. The early occupation of the western lands by Union forces and Virginia's divided loyalties led to the formation of the new State of West Virginia, which was admitted to the Union in 1863.
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council 's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails .
Union or Secession: Virginians Decide at the Library of Virginia; National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1861–62; National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1863; National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1864; National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1865
The nickname became even more applicable during the Mexican–American War in 1846, after the Secretary of War asked the state for 2,800 soldiers, and Tennessee sent over 30,000 volunteers. [1] Tennessee was the last state to formally leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the
Columbia is the location of Tennessee's first two-year college, Columbia State Community College, established in 1966. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson dedicated the new campus on March 15, 1967. [14] On this visit, the President also visited the James K. Polk Home for a short time. [15]