Table of Data Points

Tag : Tennessee

1864-01-17Dandridge

Wanting to push the Confederates out of their winter headquarters and having received reports of good forage south of the French Broad River, Union forces under Gen John Parke advanced on Dandridge, near the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad, o...

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1863-12-311863-01-02Murfreesboro

Of the major battles of the Civil War, Stones River had the highest percentage of casualties on both sides. The confederate withdrawal dashed aspirations for control of Middle Tennessee.

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1863-12-29Mossy Creek

Union Gen Samuel Sturgis, while encamped at Mossy Creek and forward towards Talbott's Station, received a report on the night of December 28, 1863, that a brigade of Confederate cavalry had gone into camp that afternoon near Dandridge south of Mossy...

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1863-12-14Bean's Station

General James Longstreet had been outside of Knoxville until December 4, when he abandoned their position and left heading Northeast

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1863-11-29Fort Sanders

Assaults by Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet failed to break through the defensive lines of Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, resulting in lopsided casualties, and the Siege of Knoxville entered its final days.

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1863-11-231863-11-25Chattanooga

Bragg's defeat eliminated the last Confederate control of Tennessee and opened the door to an invasion of the Deep South, leading to Sherman's Atlanta Campaign of 1864.

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1863-11-16Campbell's Station

In early November 1863, Gen James Longstreet, with two divisions and about 5,000 cavalry, was detached from the Confederate Army of Tennessee near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to attack Gen Ambrose Burnside's Union Department of the Ohio troops at Knoxville

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1863-11-03Collierville

Four minor battles occurred in 1863 at Collierville, Tennessee, during a three-month period

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1863-10-281863-10-29Brown's Ferry

In pontoon boats, Union troops floated down the Tennessee River to land at Brown's Ferry on the west side of the River. They fought their way to high ground and dug in with abatis.

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1863-10-10Blue Springs

Gen Ambrose Burnside, commander of the Department of the Ohio, undertook an expedition into East Tennessee to clear the roads and passes to Virginia, and, if possible, secure the saltworks beyond Abingdon

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