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Rediscovering Fort Sanders
The American Civil War and Its Impact on Knoxville's Cultural Landscape
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eBook - PDF
Rediscovering Fort Sanders
The American Civil War and Its Impact on Knoxville's Cultural Landscape
About this book
In the fall of 1863, Knoxville came under Union occupation, and troops went immediately to work to strengthen existing defenses and construct new ones. The most important of these was the earthwork atop a hill west of the city that came to be known as Fort Sanders. The fort would be the site of a critical battle on November 29, in which General James Longstreet’s Southern forces mounted a bold but ill-conceived assault that lasted only twenty minutes yet resulted in over eight hundred Rebel casualties. The completion of the fort under General Davis Tilson would safeguard Knoxville from further attack for the rest of the war.
Rediscovering Fort Sanders is a unique book that combines a narrative history of pre-Civil War Knoxville, the war years and continuing construction of Fort Sanders, the failed attempts to preserve the postwar fort, and the events which led to its almost total destruction. Research by Terry and Charles Faulkner resulted in two major discoveries: the fort was actually located a block farther to the west then previously recognized, and there are still identifiable remnants of the fortification where none were believed to exist.
More than just a chronicle of a significant chapter in Civil War and postwar history, this book will inspire others to continue the effort to ensure that the site and remains of Fort Sanders are preserved and properly commemorated for future generations.
Rediscovering Fort Sanders is a unique book that combines a narrative history of pre-Civil War Knoxville, the war years and continuing construction of Fort Sanders, the failed attempts to preserve the postwar fort, and the events which led to its almost total destruction. Research by Terry and Charles Faulkner resulted in two major discoveries: the fort was actually located a block farther to the west then previously recognized, and there are still identifiable remnants of the fortification where none were believed to exist.
More than just a chronicle of a significant chapter in Civil War and postwar history, this book will inspire others to continue the effort to ensure that the site and remains of Fort Sanders are preserved and properly commemorated for future generations.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Lost in Time
- CHAPTER 1. The War That Changed All Wars
- CHAPTER 2. A Nation and State Divided
- CHAPTER 3. The War Comes to East Tennessee
- CHAPTER 4. Fortifying Knoxville
- CHAPTER 5. The Siege of Knoxville
- CHAPTER 6. Life, Death, and Bravery during the Siege
- CHAPTER 7. The Battle of Fort Sanders
- CHAPTER 8. The Winter of 1864
- CHAPTER 9. At Work All the Time on the Fort
- CHAPTER 10. Understanding Post-Battle Construction and Its Effect on the Landscape
- CHAPTER 11. Fort Sanders from 1866 to 1900
- CHAPTER 12. Preserving Memories amid Changing Times
- CHAPTER 13. Disappointment and Celebration
- CHAPTER 14. Development of West Knoxville
- CHAPTER 15. Fort Sanders after the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- CHAPTER 16. The 1913 Exposition and Important Postwar Photographs
- CHAPTER 17. Monuments and Memorial Windows
- CHAPTER 18. The Future of the Fort Sanders Neighborhood
- CHAPTER 19. Buried History
- Conclusion
- References Cited
- Index