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The battle continued until after dark with the Union forces occupying roughly the same battle line as when the fighting started. Having failed to cross the river to the opposite bank, and fearing that Longstreet's entire force was in front of them, General Parke ordered the Federals to retreat to New Market and Strawberry Plains during the night.
On the 26th, we commenced a movement with Hancock's corps and Sheridan's cavalry to the north side by the way of Deep Bottom, where Butler had a pontoon bridge laid. The plan, in the main, was to let the cavalry cut loose and, joining with Kautz's cavalry of the Army of the James, get by Lee's lines and destroy as much as they could of the Virginia Central Railroad, while, in the mean time ...
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 46th annual Ohio Civil War Show will take place 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sunday.
The 13th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Strawberry Plains, Gallatin and Nashville, Tennessee, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel John K. Miller. Nine companies mustered in at Strawberry Plains on October 28 and November 8, 1863.
The Bridge Burners: A True Adventure of East Tennessee's Underground Civil War — historical novel by Cameron Judd; A Hero In Homespun: A Tale of the Loyal South — William E. Barton's 1897 novel about the bridge burners; Famous Plainsmen — article about James Keeling (Keelan), the Confederate defender of the Strawberry Plains bridge
Saunders' Raid in eastern Tennessee June 14–24 (detachment). Knoxville June 19–20. Strawberry Plains June 20. Rogers' Gap June 20. Powder Springs Gap June 21. Pursuit of Scott's forces July 9–13. Operations in eastern Kentucky against Scott July 26-August 6. Battle of Richmond July 28. Burnside's Campaign in eastern Tennessee August 16 ...
Strawberry Plains is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson, Knox, and Sevier counties in the State of Tennessee, United States. [4] Before 2010, it was treated by the United States Census Bureau as a census county division .