Battle of Nashville & Beyond

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4442 Tennessee 6, Thompson Station, Tennessee

Hood’s Retreat at Thompson’s Station

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google-street-viewWest Harpeth River – Dec. 17, 1864

Marker ID: THC 3D 17 

Location: U.S. 31, Williamson County, south of Franklin, TN on the West Harpeth River (360° panorama)

“Moving rapidly south through Franklin, Stephen D. Lee’s Corps, with Chalmers’ cavalry division attacked, took up a delaying position in this area about 1:00 p.m. They beat off attacks by Wood’s IV Corps & Wilson’s cavalry. Here, Gen. Lee was wounded; command passed to Maj. Gen. L. Carter Stevenson. The Army of Tennessee bivouacked that night around Spring Hill.”

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Hood’s Crossing

Hood crossing of the Tennessee River: 

Where did Gen. Hood cross of the Tennessee River on his escape out of region in late 1864? Bainbridge is the location mentioned in the official records, but after the river was damed, it is now a lake. On December 27th 1864 at 3:00 am Hood’s retreat of the Army of Tennessee began a two day evacuation across the river. U.S. Navy gunboats were just a few miles downstream, but due to the turbulent river at Muscle Shoals, were unable to reach the crossing and do any harm.

Hood’s Retreat from Nashville

Looking north towards the location.

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Johnsonville

Johnsonville in the Civil War: 

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Vistor Center

Nashville was the spring board for the North in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Johnsonville was the logistic supply base that was it’s life-line. Due to the unpredictable water level of the Cumberland River at certain times of the year, a rail line was built to connect Nashville to the Tennessee River. This logistics infrastructure ran as far as South Carolina to Gen. Sherman. Gen. Hoods invasion of Tennessee in the fall of 1864, set out to disrupt and destroy it.

“During the Civil War, Johnsonville was the location of a Union supply depot that moved food, guns, uniforms and everything else needed to supply an army. Steamboats brought supplies up the Tennessee River to the Johnsonville Depot. The supplies were transferred on to railroad cars and transported along the 78 mile Nashville & Northwestern Military Railroad to Nashville, Tennessee and on to General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army in Georgia”…read more

This historical site was the location of the audacious raid by Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest in November of 1864. This was the commencement of Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Tennessee champaign. Forrest’s raid here captured the U.S.S. Undine and resulted in the burning the 6 other naval warships and over 6.7 million dollars of U.S. Army supplies. The 2500 Johnsonville man garrison included the 12th, 13th, and 100th United States Colored Troops (USCT). These African American soldiers would go on to fight valiantly in the Battle of Nashville, having 5 consecutive color bearers shot down on Peach Orchard Hill.

Johnsonville State Historic Park, is located 3 miles north of Highway 70 in New Johnsonville, and has a new interpretive center (2013). The 527 wooded park offers some of the most well preserved earthworks in the country. Across the river near Camden, Tennessee, the Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park offers a commanding view of the area, located where the Confederate force attacked from.

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