SITE OF THE CONFEDERATE TRAINING GROUND - Johnson City, TN
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vhasler
N 36° 18.758 W 082° 21.961
17S E 377368 N 4019490
United Daughters of the Confederacy monument marks the site of the training grounds.
Waymark Code: WMA0TP
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/27/2010
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The SITE OF THE CONFEDERATE TRAINING GROUND was near Lament and Tennessee Sts. It was also a camp ground of Confederate troops on
their way from the deep South to Virginia.
----- TENNESSEE - A Guide to the State (third printing 1949)
Monument text:
1861. Here was training Camp of Confederate Regiments from the South on their way by rail to Virginia to join General Lee. In front of this marker was the parade ground. Erected by U.C. Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The old parade ground is now an older neighborhood. Tennessee Street is now known as University Parkway.