Fort Donelson National Battlefield is located in North Central Tennessee ... and news of the Union victory spread. This was the first significant victory for the Union Army and after this, they ...

While their neighbors and sometimes brothers fought for the South, some 31,000 Tennesseans joined the Federal army. Tennessee sent more white soldiers to fight for the Union than any other ...

On this day in 1861, as the Civil War entered its third month, Tennessee ... while others donned Union blue. It furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state and more ...

And the, Cam went on to be also captured at, at Vicksburg, paroled on July the 4th of '63, and joined the Union Army February of ... They did not vote for Tennessee to secede.

It continues to this day at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, whose sports teams dub themselves the “Vols.” During the Civil War two opposing forces — each named the Army of ...

Over the course of the two-day battle, Union forces again crushed Hood's army, effectively ending the Civil War in Tennessee. Unlike many other Civil War battlefields, much of the area where Union ...