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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 ...
Walker was the publisher of The Western Chronicle, a Columbia newspaper, and chancellor of Maury County. [2] Walker lived in the house with his wife, née Jane Maria Polk, and their three sons, including Lucius M. Walker , who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War .
Columbia was the site of Jackson College from 1837 until it was burned, along with most of Jackson, by Union troops during the American Civil War. Columbia had five documented lynchings in the 20th century. [7] In 1924 a black man was shot and killed in the courthouse after his sentence was commuted, by the brother of his victim.
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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)
The national battlefield was established through the efforts of both private individuals, the Stones River Battlefield and Park Association, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (which became part of CSX Transportation through several mergers), and a 1927 act of Congress authorizing a national military park under the jurisdiction of the War Department.
Pages in category "Tennessee in the American Civil War" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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