Battle of Nashville & Beyond

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Kelley’s Point Under Siege – Again

Kelley’s Point at Brookmeade Park fights a new battle

https://www.reclaimbrookmeadepark.com

For the last five years, the homeless population has grown to around 100 people, mostly young white males. The population is so large that citizens are afraid to use the park. Recent efforts are underway to relocate the campers into Section 8 housing. The problem is that there is very little availably in the city.

The city Greenway was established in 2004. Not only did it once offer a beautiful vista on the bluffs of the Cumberland River, it was also the site of a historic American Civil War naval battle preceding the Battle of Nashville. It’s also the site of hundreds of Native American stone box graves.

The recent explosion of new real estate development has increased the demand for parks and greenways. This park is so overrun with indigent residents, visitors report feeling unsafe in the 14 acre wooded enclave. The problem has spilled over into the commercial business, which report escalating petty-crime and pan-handlers.

This virtual tour was shot August 21, 2021. It illustrates the explosion of the problem since 2016 seen here on Google Maps.

UPDATE: Nashville Metro Parks started a partial cleanup of the park on 25 August 2021. Secondary cleanup 16 September 2021. This phase removed an alleged heroin distribution center.

Before (2016)

After (2021)

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Fort Negley Park Saved

St. Cloud Hill development backs off the Fort Negley Park Plan

 

Updated: 08 Feb 2018

Act Four:

Saint Cloud Hill abandons controversial proposal for Nashville’s Greer Stadium – The Tennessean

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CGI 3D Model

Fort Negley (Harker) in Nashville, Tennessee by belmontguy on Sketchfab

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Noblit-Lytle Home

1840’s Home Dismantled

UPDATE: 9 April 2018
Dismantled by Barnwood Builders for it’s log cabin core.  See the schedule of the programs here.

Sometime between last spring and last week, this historic Noblit-Lytle home was dismantled. Historical markers have vanished in the area in the last decade as well. This is the site of the Battle of Sugar Creek, the last stand of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, in the Volunteer State.

Inscription. “Thomas H. Noblit (1812-1899), who served the community as justice of the peace, doctor, merchant, and farmer, built this log dogtrot farmhouse in the 1840s. The Civil War battle at Sugar Creek occurred nearby in December 1864. In the 1890s, his son-in-law, William Franklin “Will” Lytle (1858-1942), renovated the house in the Queen Anne style. Will’s daughter, Mary Will Lytle (1897-1990), was among Tennessee’s first women dentists.” …read more

by Lee Hattabaugh, October 19, 2013
By Lee Hattabaugh, October 19, 2013

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U.S.C.T. Statue

Honoring the United States Colored Infantry (U.S.C.I.)

 

The Civil War Monuments issue should take 180º turn. It’s time to honor the contributions of the 13th USCT in the Battle of Nashville. Fort Negley Park would be ideal for it’s location. The fort was constructed by African Americans, including the USCT. The grounds around the fort were “contraband camps” of Black refugees from around the region. Some may still be buried there.

Fort Negley Park is currently under threat of commercial development.

 The time is now to act and honor this page of American history. Save the park and honor the USCT.

 

USCT Monument by Aerial 3D360 on Sketchfab

 

The 13th USCT

Five color bearers of the 13th U.S.C.I. — carrying a flag with its origin:  “Presented by the Colored Ladies of Murfreesboro” — were shot down before their banner was captured. The regiment lost 40 percent of its men, the highest casualty rate of the battle of Nashville.  

The 13th U.S.C.T. was comprised of 20 officers and 556 men, most of whom had been enslaved in Tennessee. Ordered to assault Peach Orchard Hill during the battle, after many white Union regiments had failed, the 13th U.S.C.T. was slaughtered by the Confederate troops defending the hill. Yet in undertaking this task these freed slaves, untried in fierce combat, won in their deaths the admiration of friend and foe alike…read more

Blood Proof: USCT and the Battle of Nashville

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General Order #1

Defending Fort Negley Park

Lt. Col. David Acuff, U.S. Army (ret.)

“This situation keeps causing an image to pop into my mind. It is Dec. 15, 1864, and you are at one of the Redoubts, alone. Tens of thousands of property developers and city planners are formed up and advancing toward you. You wait for them with your musket. You know that the outcome doesn’t matter. You “will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved.” (General Order #1)”