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"Dedicated to Those Brave & Gallant Soldiers in Butternut & Gray."
Dedicated By:
Sergeant Major Larry E. & Mrs. Sheila M. Williams, US Army / Retired
Commander Camp #72 (Manchester), Starnes DBE., TN Div., SCV
10 December 2011
Location:
35° 31.704′ N, 86° 20.071′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County. Memorial is at the intersection of Spring Street (Tennessee Route 269) and Bridgeview Street, on the right when traveling north on Spring Street.
Marker is located in Wartrace Memorial Park. Touch for map.
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"Andrew Jackson"
Erected By:
Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Number 3G 43
Inscription:
Wartrace is located on a 5000-acre North Carolina grant acquired by General Andrew Jackson at an 1802 marshal's sale in Nashville. In 1805, Jackson came to the area to establish his boundaries for the opening of the lands for settlement by the third Treaty of Tellico. In 1806, he returned to survey his property to sell to settlers on Wartrace Creek. The land is part of 85,000 acres on the Three Forks of Duck River granted to John Gray Blount and Thomas Blount in 1793.
Location:
35° 31.698′ N, 86° 20.068′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is on Spring Street east of Bridgeview Street, on the right when traveling north. The marker is located in Wartrace Memorial Park. Touch for map.
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"Army of Tennessee"
Erected By:
Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Number 3G 7
Inscription:
Hardee's Corps retired to the Wartrace-Fairfield defensive line, January, 1863. Here they remained until late June, when Rosecrans, moving the bulk of the Federal Army of the Cumberland around the right flank to Manchester, made Bragg withdraw from his strong positions to Chattanooga.
Location:
35° 33.641′ N, 86° 17.386′ W. Marker is near Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is on Tennessee Route 64, half a mile west of Fairfield Pike, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map.
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"Beechwood Plantation"
Erected By:
Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Number 3G 42
Inscription:
The Beechwood Plantation house, which formerly stood at this site, was an important Confederate headquarters during the Tullahoma Campaign. It was built for Col. Andrew Erwin, Jr. and family in 1826. The Erwins, who were southern sympathizers, lavishly entertained local society and Confederate officers during the Civil War. In 1863, Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee was camped along the Duck River line. Gen William J. Hardee camped at Wartrace and made Beechwood his headquarters.
Location:
35° 31.15′ N, 86° 18.65′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is on Cortner Road (County Route 269), on the right when traveling south.
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Inscription:
Cleburne's Division - Maj/Gen Patrick R Cleburne
Liddell's Brigade - Brig/Gen St John Richardson Liddell
2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Daniel C Govan
5th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col L. Featherston
6 & 7th Arkansas Regiment- Lt/Col Peter Snyder
8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col J. H. Kelly
13 & 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col. J E. Josey
Mississippi Warren's Light Artillery - Cpt Charles Swett
Wood's Brigade - Brig/Gen Sterling Alexander Martin Wood
Adams' Regiment - Col Samuel Adams
Alabama Marks Artillery Battery - Cpt Henry G Semple
32nd & 45th Mississippi Infantry Regiment - Col Mark P. Lowrey
Churchill's Brigade - Brig/Gen Thomas James Churchill
At Liberty Gap Cleburne's forces and the skill of his sharp shooters with their Whitworth rifles held the 25,000 men of McCook's 20th Corps at the gap for three days until ordered by Gen. Bragg to withdraw to Tullahoma on June 27th 1863. As from Shiloh to Franklin and all battles in between with his strategic ability Cleburne's Division always stood out among others and the blue hordes dreaded the sight of the blue flag with the white circle facing them across battle lines.
Upon Cleburne's death at Franklin, Gen William J. Hardee, Cleburne's former Corps Commander, had this to say when he learned of his loss: “Where this division defended, no odds broke its line: where it attacked, no numbers resisted its onslaught, save only once: and there is the grave of Cleburne.”
To Gen. Robert E. Lee “he was a meteor shining from a clouded sky”
"Skirmish at Liberty Gap"
Front Side
"Skirmish at Liberty Gap"
Back Side
Erected By:
Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham Camp 72,
Sons of Confederate Veterans in 2011
Inscription:
Major General Patrick R. Cleburne
Stonewall of the West
Cleburne's Division
2nd Army Corps
(Hardee)
Army of Tennessee
Dedicated December 10, 2011
Maj/Gen Benjamin F. Cheatham
Camp 72 Sons of Confederate Veterans
Manchester, Tennessee
Location:
35° 31.707′ N, 86° 20.071′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County. Memorial is at the intersection of Spring Street (Tennessee Route 269) and Bridgeview Street, on the right when traveling north on Spring Street.
Marker is located in Wartrace Memorial Park. Touch for map.
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"Skirmish at Wartrace"
Erected By:
Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Number 3G 45
Inscription:
In April 1862, Major James M. Shanklin with 197 men of the 42nd Indiana Infantry campedon the west bank of Wartrace Creek, near the end of Bridgeview Street, to secure the supply line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad by guarding two bridges north and south of Wartrace. Early on the morning of April 11, 1862, Colonel James W. Starnes of the 8th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion with 200 Confederates attacked the camp. Several men, on both sides, were killed and wounded.
Location:
35° 31.653′ N, 86° 20.247′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County. Marker is on Bridgeview Street, 0.2 miles west of Spring Street, on the left when traveling west.
Marker is located in Winnette-Ayers Park. Touch for map.
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"Strolling Jim"
Erected By:
Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Number 3G 34
Inscription:
Strolling Jim, the first World's Champion Tennessee Walking Horse, is buried in a pasture directly behind the Walking Horse Hotel. Foaled in 1936, this former work horse was ridden to the championship by Floyd Carothers at the first Walking Horse Celebration at Shelbyville in 1939. Jim died in 1957 in the pasture where he spent his last years.
Location:
35° 31.635′ N, 86° 20.05′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is on Blackman Boulevard West (State Highway 64) near Spring Street, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map.
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"Tullahoma Campaign"
Part One
Erected By:
Tennessee Backroads Heritage
Anatomy of a Campaign: In late June of 1863, Union Major General William S. Rosecrans launched a massive offensive from his base in Murfreesboro in an attempt to drive Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s 43,000-man Army of Tennessee from its entrenchments at Shelbyville and Wartrace, and possibly out of the state. The Union commander planned to capture Chattanooga and, in his words, “rescue loyal East Tennessee from the hands of the rebels.” The campaign was bold and swift, with relatively few engagements. By July 4th, the Union’s Army of the Cumberland, 70,000 strong, had forced a Confederate retreat to Chattanooga, leaving nearly all of Tennessee in Union hands. Advance to Manchester: To maneuver Bragg out of his Shelbyville trenches, Rosecrans divided his army into four independent columns. The first column, under Major General Gordon Granger, advanced south from Murfreesboro, down what is today US 231, to threaten the main Confederate infantry at Shelbyville. The second, led by Major General Alexander McCook, moved south, through Liberty Gap. The third column, lead by Major General George Thomas, marched southeast, down the Manchester Pike (US 41), the main road to Chattanooga. A fourth column, commanded by Major General Thomas L. Crittenden, advanced due east along the McMinnville Turnpike (US 70) before turning south to cross the Highland Rim below Bradyville, at Gillie’s Gap. Rosecrans' goal was to get the bulk of his army here, to Manchester, push on to Tullahoma, and capture the road to Chattanooga before the Confederates had a chance to respond. Only rain and the poor conditions of the roads slowed the Union advance. CAPTIONS: {TOP RIGHT} Confederate General Braxton Bragg; Union Major General William S. Rosecrans {LEFT} Granger; McCook; Thomas; Crittenden TIMELINE: 1860: November 6; Lincoln Elected December 20; South Carolina Secedes 1861: April 12; Fort Sumter Attacked July 21; First Manassas 1862: April 1-7; Shiloh August 29-30; Second Manassas September 11; Antietam December 13; Fredericksburg December 31-January 3; Stones River 1863: May 1-4; Chancellorsville May 20-July 4; Vicksburg June 24-July 4; Tullahoma Campaign July 1-3; Gettysburg September 19-20; Chickamauga November 23-25; Chattanooga 1864: June 3; Cold Harbor September 2; Atlanta November 30; Franklin December 15-16; Nashville 1865: April 2; Petersburg April 9; Lee Surrenders April 18; Johnston Surrenders May 9; Forrest Surrenders
Location:
35° 31.707′ N, 86° 20.072′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is at the intersection of Spring Street (Tennessee Route 269) and Bridgeview Street, on the right when traveling north on Spring Street. Touch for map.
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Part One
Part Two
"Tullahoma Campaign"
Part Two
Erected By:
Tennessee Backroads Heritage
Hardee's Corps at Wartrace: Following the Battle of Stones River in early January of 1863, Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee retreated south to Tullahoma before establishing a defensive line running from Shelbyville to the vicinity of Wartrace. Lieutenant General William J. Hardee, headquartered at nearby Beechwood, the plantation home of Colonel Andrew Erwin, held the line around Wartrace with two divisions, one commanded by Major General Patrick Cleburne, the other by Major General A. P. Stewart. From this position, his 14,000-man corps guarded both Liberty Gap above Bell Buckle and Hoover's Gap at Beech Grove. As the Union advance on June 24th and 25th pushed through the gaps toward Manchester, Hardee's position in Wartrace was turned and he ordered a general retreat south to Tullahoma. The two days of rain that marked the opening of the campaign turned the roads to mud. Often, the men marched without shoes. As Cleburne noted of the men, they "had no changes of clothing, no tents, and could not even light fires to dry themselves." Yet, spirits remained determined. Despite the "retrograde," as one Confederate soldier described it, "look out for hot work at Tullahoma...We are prepared for the Yanks at that place." Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne was one of the most notable general officers the Confederacy produced. He was born in 1828 in Ireland and joined the British army when the Irish potato famine struck. In 1849 he emigrated to America, moving to Arkansas. Cleburne enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in 1861, but made a spectacular rise to Major General by late 1862, becoming one of the best division commanders in the western army. Never a conventional thinker, Cleburne proposed while at Wartrace that the Confederacy arm slaves with the guarantee they would be emancipated along with their immediate families. He assumed that a southerner would sooner "give up the negro slave rather than be a slave himself," and that slaves would make wonderful soldiers, for "the Negro has been dreaming of freedom, and his vivid imagination has surrounded that condition with so many gratifications that it has become the paradise of his hopes." Cleburne's suggestion found few supporters. Confederate Brigadier General William Bate, commander of a brigade at Hoover's Gap, called the idea "hideous and objectionable," nothing less than the "serpent of Abolitionism...revolting to Southern sentiment, Southern pride and Southern honor." The proposition was kept from the public, however, and seemed to stifle Cleburne's meteoric rise. He was never considered for further promotion. Leading a frontal assault, he was killed at the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. The Whitworth Rifle: While stationed here in Wartrace, Major General Cleburne trained Confederate sharpshooters with five new Whitworth rifles, an English weapon made from the design of Joseph Whitworth, one of the most important mechanical engineers of the 19th century. The weapon fired a .45-caliber bullet accurately to a range of 1,500-1,800 yards using a telescopic site, making it ideal for sharpshooters. At Wartrace, Cleburne organized contests of marksmanship to determine who would use these rifles. Once selected, he engaged the men in intensive shooting drills, to the point that, as one officer remembered, the division "had the finest and most effective body of sharpshooters in the army." (Captions) (Top left) Confederate Lieutenant General William J. Hardee (Right) Major General Patrick R. Cleburne
Location:
35° 31.707′ N, 86° 20.072′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is at the intersection of Spring Street (Tennessee Route 269) and Bridgeview Street, on the right when traveling north on Spring Street. Touch for map.
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"Valley Home"
Erected By:
United States
Department of the Interior
Inscription:
Built 1835
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Location:
35° 31.821′ N, 86° 18.783′ W. Marker is near Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is on Potts Road, 1.3 miles south of Tennessee Route 64, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map.
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"Wartrace"
Erected By:
Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Number 3G 44
Inscription:
In 1850, Rice Coffey gave eight acres to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad on which the main line would run with a depot and freight house at the junction of the branch line to Shelbyville. In 1851, town lots were laid off. The following year, a post office was established. In 1853, the town was incorporated as Wartrace Depot after Wartrace Creek. Twenty years later, the name was changed to Wartrace after Wartrace Creek, which was named for the War Trace, a buffalo path used by Indians at war with Nashville settlers in the 1790's.
Location:
35° 31.526′ N, 86° 20.04′ W. Marker is in Wartrace, Tennessee, in Bedford County.
Marker is on Blackman Boulevard (Tennessee Route 64), on the right when traveling south. Touch for map.
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