Tazewell
On January 24, 1864 an attack of Confederate forces advancing on the Big Springs and Bear Creek road was repulsed
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June 24, 1863
Rutherford/Bedford
Early in the Tullahoma Campaign, Union forces in the Army of the Cumberland advanced upon a series of gaps south of Murfreesboro occupied by the Confederate Army of the Tennessee. In a series of attacks and counter-attacks that followed including the 39th Indiana Infantry armed with Spencer repeating rifles, the Confederate forces withdrew to Tullahoma.
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On January 24, 1864 an attack of Confederate forces advancing on the Big Springs and Bear Creek road was repulsed
Reports of the engagement; HDQRS. DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Memphis, Tenn., May 4, 1864. GEN.: On the afternoon of the
As part of Confederate Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet’s strategy to capture Knoxville and drive the Union IX and XXIII Corps