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Parson Brownlow’s home
Via the Tennessee State Library & Archives where it is not made clear whether this was the Brownlow home in 1863, when he fled the Longstreet siege, or only later, after he was governor. So let’s...
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Knoxville’s McClung Museum
Nothing remains of the original Fort Sanders and, as you can tell from the one surviving photo, most of the drawings and illustrations of the time and later are fanciful. But the University of...
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Hie thee to the street corner
That is, if you wish to commemorate the Battle of Fort Sanders during these Sesquicentennial years of the war. Supposedly, near the intersection of Seventeenth Street and Laurel Avenue is where the...
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Too cold to write
Texas Brigade Private John Camden West wrote his wife from their camp near Knoxville on Dec. 19, almost three weeks after the assault on Fort Sanders: “I would like to write you a long letter but it is...
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Blue-Gray Reunion 1890
The reunion tent (left) was erected at the edge of what little remained (to the right of the tent) of Fort Sanders. Photo via McClung Collection.
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Bethel Cemetery
The Confederate monument at Knoxville’s Bethel Cemetery which holds the remains of about 1,600 Rebel soldiers, “including several hundred soldiers who were killed in the battle of Fort Sanders.” This...
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Reprise: Burnside’s congratulations
The day before President Lincoln issued his proclamation of thanksgiving for the Confederate defeat at Knoxville, Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside congratulated his troops on their steadfast performance:...
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Gay Street 1910
Knoxville’s Gay Street, fifty-one years after it was the scene of Rebel and Union recruiting, as recalled by the novel’s Parthenia Leila Ellis. Via Instapundit.
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A neighborhood’s ghost
The real Fort Sanders is long gone, but it haunts the Knoxville neighborhood named for it. And the ghost still draws researchers, including retired University of Tennessee archeologist Charlie...
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The battle’s sesquicentennial
One hundred fifty years ago at dawn today, four seriously-under strength Mississippi and Georgia regiments attacked the earthwork Fort Sanders on Knoxville’s west side. The very subject of Knoxville...
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