 view gallery |   Young’s Mill-Magruder’s First Peninsula Defensive Line - Newport News VA
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The mill located behind you is one of the few remaining tide mills on the Peninsula. In the woods across the private road to your left are several redoubts and rifle pits. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/6/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Fighting for Trenton-Raid on the Depot - Trenton TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites As Confederate Gen. Nathan B. Forrest’s cavalry brigade approached Trenton in December 1862, Union Col. Jacob Fry prepared to meet the attack. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Rude's Hill-Jackson at Rude’s Hill - New Market VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s small Confederate force went into a defensive position here after retiring from the battle at Kernstown. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Libby Prison-“Hope was all that sustained many.” - Richmond VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Near this site, from about 1845 until 1889, stood the building that housed Richmond’s famous Libby Prison. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | “Gallant” Pelham’s Last Days-The Virginia House and Shackelford House - Culpeper VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Confederate cavalry chief Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and Maj. John Pelham, the commander of Stuart’s Horse Artillery, frequented the Virginia House Hotel and often visited the Shackelford family across the street. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Battle of James City-Opening Battle of the Bristoe Station Campaign - Leon VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On October 10, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, anticipating an offensive that became known as the Bristoe Station Campaign, sent a division of Confederate horsemen led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart north from Madison on a raid. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | McNeill’s Rangers “Hurah for McNeal” - Harrisonburg VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Harrisonburg is associated with the exploits of McNeill’s Rangers, a famous Confederate partisan unit. In 1862, John Hanson McNeill, a native of Hardy County in present-day West Virginia, recruited men for Co. E, 18th Virginia Cavalry. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Fisher's Hill Battlefield-Veteran's Picnic Grounds - Fishers Hill VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Soon after the end of the Civil War, veterans on both sides began holding reunions to walk the familiar battlegrounds and renew friendships with former comrades. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Yorktown-The Frowning Fortress of York - Yorktown VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The trench line to your right is all that remains of a formidable line of Confederate earthworks that once blocked this historic road and the Union army’s advance westward past Yorktown in 1862. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Chilhowie-Stoneman at Greever’s Switch - Chilhowie VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On December 1, 1864, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 5,700 cavalrymen east from Knoxville, Tennessee, to destroy iron-, lead-, and saltworks in Virginia that were essential to the Confederate war effort. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Winchester's Civil War Sites-County Seceded before the State - Winchester TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites When Tennessee failed to secede from the Union on February 9, 1861, Franklin County residents met here at the courthouse. They listened to attorney Peter Turney’s forceful speech offering resolutions in favor of secession and reportedly adopted them. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Epperson Springs-Resort and Wartime Enlistment Center - Westmoreland TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Because of its prominent location near the Kentucky line, the resort became an enlistment center and a Confederate training camp in the autumn of 1861. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Fort Hill at Waverly Defending Railroads - Waverly TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The earthen fort in front of you, known as Fort Hill, was the headquarters of the 13th U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), led by Col. John A. Hottenstein, from the fall of 1863 to the end of the war. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Fortress Tullahoma-Strategic Rail Center - Tullahoma TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In January 1863, after the Battle of Stones River, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee fortified Tullahoma to protect the supply depot and Bragg’s headquarters. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Maplewood Confederate Cemetery-Hallowed Ground - Tullahoma TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites More than 500 soldiers from virtually every state in the Confederacy who were killed or died near Tullahoma are buried here. At first, wooden headboard marked the graves, but soon all vestiges of individual markers were lost in what became essentially a mass grave. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Fighting for Trenton-Forrest's Artillery Position - Trenton TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Gen. Nathan B Forrest placed his artillery here during the attack on Trenton on December 20, 1862. Union Col. Jacob Fry, commanding a unit of about 250 hastily assembled convalescents and other soldiers, occupied the area. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Affair at Travisville-War Comes to Tennessee - Travisville TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The first military action of the Civil War in Tennessee occurred on September 29, 1861 at Travisville. The blood spilled in this brief engagement brought the reality of the conflict home to the people of the Cumberland Mountains. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Thompson's Station-Prelude to Franklin - Thompson's Station TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On November 29, 1864, just one day before the Battle of Franklin, an action occurred here at Thompson’s Station that alarmed Union Gen. John M. Schofield’s army as it marched north toward Nashville from Spring Hill. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Tellico Iron Works-Gripped in the War's Iron Fist - Tellico Plains TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Throughout the Civil War, both sides depended on the iron industry for vitally important munitions. The Tellico Iron and Manufacturing Company, then located one mile east, caught the attention first of the Confederate army and eventually of Union Gen. William T. Sherman himself. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Coker Creek-Caught in the Middle - Tellico Plains TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Here in the shadow of the Unicoi Mountains, the Coker Creek community suffered the effects of the Civil War. The conflict closed the lucrative gold mines here and brought devastation and terror to the inhabitants. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Kimbrough's Crossroads-Confederate Surprise - Talbot TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Two days after Union Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis’s cavalry divisions occupied Dandridge on January 14, 1864, he ordered his division commanders to reconnoiter and secure the countryside at Long Creek on Chucky Road and here at Kimbrough’s Crossroads. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Great Craighead Cave-Mining a Strategic Material - Sweetwater TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Saltpeter, or niter, is a key ingredient of gunpowder found in many limestone caves in East Tennessee. In June 1861, Randolph Ross, Jr., and J. Marshall McCue contracted with the Confederate Ordnance Bureau to produce niter here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Suffering and Survival - Kingsport, TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Union and Confederate forces in Sullivan County battled to control the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad and Holston River, strategically vital transportation routes for moving soldiers and supplies. posted by:  Hobo Larry location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Greeneville Convention - Greene County, TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During the Civil War, political divisions deeply scared the residents of East Tennessee. posted by: Hobo Larry location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Carter County in the Civil War - Roan Mountain, TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Carter County, especially the area around Roan Mountain, suffered from the effects of occupation during the war. Residents were divided in their support of the Union and the Confederacy, and raids were commonplace. posted by: Hobo Larry location: Tennessee date approved: 7/5/2020 last visited: never |
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