The Civil War Years in Tennessee

I.  Recruitment of Army - Military Organization

A.  Company

B.  Regiment

C.  Camps - Camp Trousdale in Sumner County

D.  Provisional army of Tennessee

II.  Lincoln’s strategy

Tennessee - the keystone of the Southern arch

            1.  railroads

            2.  rivers

III.  Guerilla activity

A.  William Blount Carter - bridge burning

B.  Martial law imposed - Gen. Felix Zollicoffer to Knoxville

IV.  Battle of Fishing Creek

V.  Battle of Belmont

VI.  Battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

A.  Ulysses S. Grant

B.  location of the forts - plan of defense

C.  Confederate surrender

D.  Nathan Bedford Forrest

E.  Surrender of Nashville

VII.  Andrew Johnson as Military Governor - the Occupation of Nashville

VIII.  Battle of Shiloh

A.  General Albert Sidney Johnson

B.  Ulysses G. Grant and William T. Sherman

C.  Hornet’s Nest

IX.  Fall of Memphis

X.        Forrest’s Raids

Fort Pillow

XI.  Battle of Stones River

A.  General Bragg

B.  General Rosecrans

XII.  Battle of Chickamauga

A.  General Braxton Bragg

B.  Rock of Chickamauga

XIII.  Battle of Chattanooga

XIV.  Johnsonville

XV.  Battle of Franklin

A.  General John Bell Hood

B.  battle strategy

XVI.  Battle of Nashville

XVII.  Champ Ferguson and Guerilla warfare

IX.  End of the War