Battle of Johnsonville - Waverly, TN
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YoSam.
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The town of Johnsonville is now gone, so this marker about the town is here at the county seat, Waverly.
Waymark Code: WMX9YE
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 12/14/2017
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County of Marker: Humphreys County
Location of Marker: S. Court St. & Mill St., behind courthouse, Waverly
Marker erected by: Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Text:
BATTLE OF JOHNSONVILLE
On November 4, 1864, Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry attacked and destroyed the river port of Johnsonville located ten miles west of here on the Tennessee River. Union losses included four gunboats, fourteen steamboats, seventeen barges, and roughly 95,000 tons of quartermaster stores. One hundred and fifty prisoners were captured. This Confederate victory is one of the few known instances of a cavalry defeating a naval force. In 1945 TVA's Kentucky Reservoir flooded Johnsonville.