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Chickamauga & Chattanooga National
Military Park –
Point Park Visitor Center, Lookout Mountain, 37350. 423-821-7786.
Site where the Battles for Chattanooga were fought in October and November
1863, including Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Missionary Ridge, Signal
Point and Wauhatchie. The battles resulted in a Northern victory and
opened the way for the invasion of Georgia in 1864. Point Park
provides an observatory for orientation to the battles, and a large
historic painting of the attack on Lookout Mountain is located in the
visitor center. The battlefield is open daily. Admission is free. The
historic Craven’s House is open in the summer. Admission is charged.
Related Link: Chickamagua
& Chattanooga National Miliary Park - National Park Service
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Battles for Chattanooga Museum –
1110 E. Brow Rd., Lookout Mountain, 37350. 423-821-2812. Experience
the battles for Chattanooga through the sights and sounds of a three-dimensional,
480 sq. ft. electronic battle map. More than 5,000 miniature soldiers
and dramatic sound effects show troop movements during the 1863 battles.
Open daily. Admission is charged. Related Link: Battle
Summary of Chattanooga - NPS
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Chattanooga National
Cemetery – 1200 Bailey Ave., Chattanooga,
37404. 423-855-6590. Chattanooga National Cemetery was established in
December 1863 by an order from General George Thomas to provide a proper
burial for Union soldiers killed in battles around Chattanooga. Eight
Andrews’ Raiders are buried in the cemetery, four of whom were
the first to receive the Medal of Honor. In April, 1862 these men were
among the 22 Union volunteers who hijacked the locomotive "General"
as part of an attempt to disrupt Confederate supply lines in Georgia.
Open daily. Admission is free. Related Link: Chickamagua
& Chattanooga National Miliary Park - National Park Service
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Chattanooga
Regional History Museum – 400 Chestnut
St., Chattanooga, 37402. 423-265-3247. The Chattanooga Regional History
Museum has an extensive Civil War collection, including a mountain howitzer;
Grant’s headquarter’s chair; dozens of muskets, rifles, swords,
knives, pistols, and projectiles; various accoutrements; uniforms; original
photographs taken by R.M. Linn and George N. Bernard; diaries and letters.
Open daily. Admission is charged. Related Link: Chickamagua & Chattanooga
National Miliary Park - National Park Service
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Loudon County Museum/Carmichael Inn
– 501 Poplar St., Loudon, 37774. Museum includes
Civil War exhibits showcased in the Carmichael Inn, a circa 1810
two-story log cabin used as a stagecoach inn. A self-guided tour
of downtown Loudon and the county tells of the town’s early
years and Civil War history. Open daily. Admission is free.
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Farragut Folklife Museum
– 11408 Municipal Center Drive, Farragut, 37922.
865-966-7057. This small museum contains an impressive collection
of artifacts of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, one of the nation’s
leading Civil War admirals, who was born a few miles from the
site. Open Mon.-Fri. 2-4 pm. Admission charge.
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Knoxville Driving Tour-Siege of Knoxville
and Battle of Fort Sanders – 301 South
Gay St., Knoxville, 37902. 865-523-7263. Tour features sites relating
to the November, 1863, attempt by Confederate General James Longstreet
to capture Knoxville and the army of Union General Ambrose E.
Burnside. Some of the sites include: Longstreet’s headquarters,
Fort Dickerson, cemeteries, hospitals, site of mortal wounding
of Union Gen. William P. Sanders, and the site of the unsuccessful
Confederate attack on Fort Sanders. Brochures by the Knoxville
Civil War Roundtable are available at the Knoxville Visitors Center,
810 Clinch Ave. Related Link: Fort Sanders
- Battle Summary - NPS
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Fort Dickerson –
301 South Gay St., Knoxville, 37902. 800-727-8045 or 865-523-7263.
Begun in November, 1863, Fort Dickerson was one of 16 earthen
forts and battery emplacements built by the Federal army to protect
Knoxville during the Civil War. The position was attacked by Confederate
cavalry under Gen. Joseph Wheeler on November 15, 1863, but the
assault was cancelled because of the formidable terrain, artillery,
and unexpected strong force guarding the approaches to Knoxville.
Open daily. Admission is free.Knoxville, 37901. 865-544-4262.
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Museum
of East Tennessee History – 601 South
Gay St., Knoxville, TN 37902. The museum interprets and preserves
the history of the East Tennessee region. A section of "The
East Tennesseans" exhibit is dedicated to the Civil War,
with uniforms, weaponry, flags, and photographs. Open Tues.-Sun.
Admission is free.
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Confederate
Memorial Hall (Bleak House) – 3148
Kingston Pike, Knoxville, 37919. 865-522-7263. Bleak House is
a Victorian mansion built in 1858 by prominent Knoxvillian Robert
H. Armstrong, using slave labor to mold the bricks on-site. During
the siege of Knoxville in November and December 1863, the home
served as headquarters for Confederate Generals James Longstreet
and Lafayette McLaws. Three sharpshooters using the house’s
tower were killed here by Federal cannon fire, and a period sketch
of their likenesses remains on the wall of the tower. Two cannonballs
are still embedded in the walls. Open Tues.-Fri. afternoons, other
times by appointment. Admission is charged.
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Mabry-Hazen House –
1711 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, 37915. 865-522-8661.
This antebellum home was alternately occupied by Union and Confederate
forces. In 1861, Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer set up
headquarters in the house, and later, during the Union occupation,
the grounds were fortified. Thousands of artifacts, including
Mrs. Mabry’s sketch of the trenches surrounding the house,
create a personal picture of family life during the war years.
Open daily. Admission is charged.
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Confederate
Cemetery – 1917 Bethel Ave., Knoxville,
37915. 865-522-8661. The cemetery was established during the Confederate
occupation of Knoxville, 1861-1863. More than1,600 Confederates
are interred in the landscaped gardens. Call for hours. Old
Gray Cemetery – P.O. Box 806, Knoxville,
37917 (located at 543 N. Broadway). 423-522-1424. This 13-acre
Victorian cemetery reflects the divided sympathies of east Tennesseans
with gravestones and sculptured monuments honoring both the Unionists
and Confederates. Many notable Knoxvillians are buried here, including
Tennessee’s Reconstruction governor William G. "Parson"
Brownlow, Confederate Colonel Henry M. Ashby and General William
R. Caswell. Open daily.
Admission is free. Veteran’s National Cemetery–
939 Tyson Street, Knoxville, 37917 (next to Old Gray Cemetery).
Established immediately after the siege of Knoxville, this cemetery
contains Federal casualties from the Battle of Fort Sanders and
members of 1st Heavy Artillery, USCT. Open daily. Related
Link: Fort Sanders
Battle Summary - National Park Service
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The
Abraham Lincoln Museum – Lincoln Memorial
University, Harrogate, 37752. 423-869-6235. The life and times
of the 16th president are recounted at this museum. Located three
miles south of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, the museum
houses one of the nation’s largest Lincoln collections. Open
daily. Admission is charged. Related Link: Cumberland
Gap National Historic Park - NPS
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Cumberland
Gap National Historical Park – US
25E South, P.O. Box 1848, Middlesboro, KY 40965. 606-248-2817.
Cumberland Gap is the historic mountain pass on the Wilderness
Road that opened the pathway for western migration. During the
Civil War, the Cumberland Gap was held first by the South and
then captured by Union troops. Each side held the Gap twice. Related
Link: Cumberland Gap National Historic
Park - NPS
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Bridge to Bridge,
the Civil War in East Tennessee - East TN Driving Tour presented
in brochure format, is a self-guiding tour of historical sites
during the War Between the States in the East Tennessee Valley.
Beginning at the Strawberry Plains Bridge over the Holston River
at the Knox/Jefferson County line, the tour generally follows
Hwy 11E and visits 23 locations over its 40 mile length to end
at the Lick Creek Bridge in Western Greene County. Both bridges
were burned during the war. Stops at Rose Center's Hal Noe Museum
in Morristown and historic Bethesda Church include displays of
artifacts, photos, and written historical information. Information
about a short side tour to Civil War sites in the Dandridge area
is available at the Rose Center. To obtain brochures or for more
information please contact Rose Center at 423-481-4330 or visit
their web site: www.rosecenter.org.
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Andrew Johnson
National Historic Site – 121 Monument
Ave., Greeneville, 37744. 423-638-3551 or 423-639-3711. Site marks
the home of the 17th president. Site contains a visitors center,
Johnson’s tailor shop, two homes of the former president
(one furnished with Johnson memorabilia) and the National Cemetery.
Open daily. Admission is charged for the home tour only. Related
Link: Andrew
Johnson National Historic Site - NPS
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Dickson-Williams
Mansion – 114 W. Church St., Greeneville,
37745. This home, called the "Showplace of East Tennessee,"
was headquarters for Union and Confederate armies. It was in this
house that General John Hunt Morgan, the "Rebel Raider,"
spent his last night before he was killed in the garden on September
4, 1864. The room in which he slept has the original furnishings
that were there when Morgan occupied the room. Open Mon.-Sat.
Sunday tours by appointment. Admission is charged.
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Tipton-Haynes
Historic Site – P.O. Box 225, 2620 South
Roan St., Johnson City, 37605. 423-926-3631. Home of Landon Carter Haynes
from 1839 until the Civil War. He was an attorney, newspaper editor
and Confederate senator. There are 10 original and restored buildings,
dating from 1783-1870, gardens, cave, and nature area. Open Mon.-Fri.,
Nov. 1-March 31, daily April 1-Oct. 31. Admission is charged.
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Historic Jonesborough
Visitors Center – 117 Boone St., Jonesborough,
37659. 423-753-1012. A guided walking or buggy ride through Jonesborough
points out sites that were headquarters, hospitals, prisons, cemeteries
and homes of noted persons related to the Civil War. Tour begins at
the visitors center. There is a charge for the guided tour and reservations
can be made. A self-guided county tour map includes homes which served
as hospitals and headquarters, encampment and skirmish sites, and the
route of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. Open daily.
