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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2648_approach-to-shiloh_Guys-TN.html
Leaving the Confederate base at Corinth, Miss. in a march which had begun the previous afternoon, the two corps of the Army of the Mississippi, commanded by Maj. Gens. Hardee and Folk, marched north along this road to unite with other units of the…
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In this section lived numerous members of the Hurst family, who were staunch Unionists in a predominantly Confederate area. Its best known member was Col. Fielding Hurst, commanding the 6th Tenn. Cavalry, an irregular Union group which skirmished …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LDM_fallen-timbers_Michie-TN.html
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After the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Gen. Don Carlos Buell's army occupied Nashville while Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army penetrated to Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Buell and Grant planned to a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM199C_mark-perrin-lowrey_Finger-TN.html
Born 4.3 mi. east, he moved to Mississippi in 1845. Enlisted in 2nd Mississippi Volunteers for Mexican War. In 1861, initially commanding the 4th Mississippi Militia, he became colonel, 32nd Mississippi Infantry, CSA, in 1862 and a brigadier gener…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16V2_purdy_Selmer-TN.html
4 miles northwest. Established in 1823, it was first county seat of McNairy County; here was Purdy University from 1855 to 1861. Glover's Trace ran through it from Middle Tennessee to the Mississippi Country. The county seat was moved in 1890.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16V1_approach-to-shiloh_Stantonville-TN.html
Marching southeast from Bethel Springs via Purdy, Cheatham's Div., Confederate Army of the Mississippi, passed here enroute to join the army for its attack at Shiloh. Location of this force had caused Grant, the Federal commander, to dispose Lew W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16V0_approach-to-shiloh_Adamsville-TN.html
The Federal 3rd Div., Army of the Tennessee commanded by Major Gen. Lew Wallace, was positioned by brigades along an east-west line to meet the Confederate attack expected from the north or northwest. The 3rd Brigade under Col. Charles Whittlesey,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM167U_battle-of-chewalla_Ramer-TN.html
General Earl Van Dorn and his Confederate troops, marching to Corinth, crossed the Tuscumbia River and camped here on October 2, 1862. At dawn on October 3, they came in on Chewalla Road and pushed the Federals back south into Corinth. Van Dorn's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12HV_buford-pusser-memorial-park_Adamsville-TN.html
Personal History
Buford Hayes Pusser was born near Finger, Tennessee on December 12, 1937. His early education consisted of elementary schools in this area and graduation from Adamsville High School in 1956. About a year later, Buford moved to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOU8_johnstons-last-bivouac_Shiloh-TN.html
(Preface):After the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Gen. Don Carlos Buell's army occupied Nashville while Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army penetrated to Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Buell and Grant planned to at…