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Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Dresden; skirmishes at Knob Gap, LaVergne, and Franklin; beginning of Murfreesboro/Stones River Campaign.
Skirmish near Franklin, Official report
Skirmishes at Prim’s Blacksmith Shop, Edmonson Pike; and on Wilson Creek Pike between Brentwood and Petersburg.
Skirmish at Middleburg.
CSA Texas Rangers and 2nd GA Cav skirmish with Federals near Concord Baptist Church in Franklin.
December 20
Capture of Humboldt and Trenton by C.S.A. troops under Forrest; C.S. attacks Grand Junction.
Skirmishes near Brentwood and Nolensville (KY 2nd Cav U.S.).
Tennessee Historical Marker,Grand Junction in Hardeman County, Tennessee,Grand Junction
Grand Junction is named for its location, where the Memphis and Charleston and Mississippi Central Railroads intersect, and was strategically important to both Confederate and Union forces. After defeats at Shiloh and Corinth, Confederates tore up the tracks, hoping to delay the Federal pursuit. Union Gen. William T. Sherman oversaw much of the repair work in mid-1862. Later Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made this place a staging ground for his Vicksburg campaign, storing “100,000 rations” and basing 40,000 U.S. soldiers here.
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December 11
C.S. President Jefferson Davis visits Army of Tennessee in Murfreesboro. Skirmishes occur at LaVergne and near Nashville. Meanwhile, Nathan Bedford Forrest leaves Columbia, Tennessee in an attempt to disrupt Ulysses S. Grant’s line of communication in the advance on Vicksburg.
Skirmish 7 miles south of Brentwood, BG David S. Stanley in command for Federals.
December 11-12
Skirmishes at Franklin and on Wilson Creek Pike. Federals re-take control of Franklin.
Skirmishes at Dobbins’ Ferry near LaVergne.
Skirmish at Brentwood, 8th WI Battery drives CSA troops from their camps.
8th Kansas Battalion fires on 250-300 Rebel cavalry five miles south of Brentwood.
Skirmish near Holly Tree Gap on Franklin Pike.
Capture of outpost, Stewart’s Ferry on the Stones River.
1862
Rebs attack Federal forage train at Brentwood. 18 Federals captured, 30 wagons and 150 mules captured too.
> Read account from Thomas F. Perkins, Jr., [Company I, 11th TN Cavalry).
1863
Thomas F. Perkins, Jr., member of Company I, 11th TN Cavalry writes about action at Pulaski.
July 1-2
The occupation of Tullahoma by Union forces brings no joy to Rosecrans, who sees Bragg’s move to a more defensible position on the Tennessee River as a potential trap. Skirmishes at and near Bethpage Bridge, Elk River.
1864
Tennessean Lucy Virginia French writes in her journal that she is reading Adam Bede and Mill on the Floss. She also mentions Adelicia Acklen, who lived in the house “Belmont” in Nashville, became something of a Confederate heroine when she was able to move her cotton crop to New Orleans, run the Union blockade, and sell it for nearly a million dollars in London.
1863
June 19
Action at Triune; affair at Lenoir’s Station – Col. Carter raids East Tenn. with 3,000 cavalry, destroying the Lenoir Bros. factory and some railroad track.
June 19-20
Skirmishes at and near Knoxville.
> Tennessee Historical Marker, Civil War Knoxville
1863
June 7-9
Skirmishes at Triune and Spring Hill. The railroad bridge over the Little Harpeth River at Brentwood is slightly burned but is repaired within a day. Two spies are caught and hanged at Murfreesboro; one is a cousin of Robert E. Lee.
1864
Skirmish at LaFayette.
1865
Explosion of ordnance building at Chattanooga
TN State Archives
Tennessee in the Civil War 