Check that Cornfield

According to the agricultural census of that year, Beatty Mahaffie produced 2000 bushels of corn on this farm in 1865. The average Johnson County farm produced 667 bushels. This small field is slightly less than one acre in size. With ...

Army of Tennessee

July 4, 1863

Here, and extending 2 miles S.W., occurred the last battle of the Middle Tennessee Campaign. Protecting Bragg's withdrawal, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, with Texas Rangers and the 4th Tenn. Cav., repulsed an attack by the 5th & 6th ...

Confederate North Carolina Junior Reserve Line

In front of you is where the North Carolina Junior Reserves stood as the Army of Tennessee made its last grand charge against Carlin’s division at the Cole plantation on March 19, 1865. Three regiments and one battalion of Junior ...

Coffee County / Franklin County

Coffee County

Establised 1836; named in honor of

Major General John Coffee

Soldier, surveyor and close friend of Andrew Jackson. Tennessee troops under his command took a decisive part in the New Orleans Campaign, December 23, 1814 to January 8, 1815.

Franklin County

Established 1807; ...

Civil War on the Beverly & Fairmont Turnpike

"A few dozen of us who had been swapping shots with the enemy's skirmishers, grew tired of the result less battle and by a common impulse - and I think without orders or officers, ran forward into the woods and ...

Merging of the Armies

Sherman’s Right Wing Arrives

(Preface):The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in ...

Fort Erie, Pro Patria Mori Cairn

[Text on the base of the Cairn];

Here are buried

150 British Officers and Men

Who fell in the attack on Fort Erie

On the 26th day of August, 1814, and three

of the defenders, men of the United States

Infantry, whose remains were discovered

during the ...

First Army Corps

Artillery, Doubleday's Division

U.S.A.

First Army Corps,

Artillery, Doubleday's Division,

Capt. J. Albert Monroe, 1st R.I. Light Artillery,

Commanding.

1st New Hampshire Battery,

Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery,

Battery L, New York Light Artillery,

Battery B, United States Artillery.

September 16, 1862.

The artillery of Doubleday's Division went into ...

McClellan’s First Line

Union Brig. Gen. Silas Casey held both sides of the road here on 31 May 1862, in Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s first defensive line at Seven Pines. Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ordered a dawn attack, but his lieutenants ...

The Welfare Building

The Welfare Building was constructed in 1906 as a recreation facility for the workers of the Glazier Stove Company. It featured a swimming pool, a billiard hall, a basketball court, a theatre and a reading room. Chelsea native Frank P. ...