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Description: Creating timelines with diaries, letters, newspapers, Official Records of the Civil War, and Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook
Creating timelines with diaries, letters, newspapers, Official Records of the Civil War, and Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook
Huntsville’s Role in the Civil War Huntsville is the county seat of Scott County, Tennessee. The town is surrounded by the low mountains and hills that comprise the southern section of the Cumberland Mountains. Confederate soldiers frequently raid the town, looking for Unionists who voted to secede from the State of Tennessee.
1862 MARCH 1862 Andrew Johnson appointed U.S. Military Governor of Tennessee. Pro-Confederate Governor Isham Harris had to flee Nashville after Battle of Fort Donelson. All of Tennessee except East Tennessee is under Union control.
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