 Yeah, it's the it's the sound okay. All right. Thank you everybody for coming out today on the spine sunny day I started this lecture right after the last one and Like every other lecture. I've probably got three times as much material as I needed I started taking pictures around Knoxville and couldn't stop and I have narrowed it down to the absolute bare minimum I have about over a hundred and thirty pictures here. So it's gonna is gonna take us a little while Let me just once again do a little bit of promotion Your Knox area Civil War sesquicentennial Commission is alive and well. We are our website is there at the bottom We are attempting to get our routine together so that the calendar is right up to the minute So that you've got one place to go in Knoxville to find out what's going on with Civil War exhibits and reenactments and any of the other fine Programming that is going to be happening during the next four years. So please keep us in mind when you're checking out what's going on in our area Now I did want to do just a little bit of review. I know I've showed you these pictures before this is Beautiful Gettysburg battlefield Gettysburg at night Gettysburg at dusk Chikamaga battled Campbell Station or Battle of Fort Sanders as you can see and I know I've said this before Knoxville never did get its National Park and efforts to commemorate to mark to highlight to even remember have been a Part of the continuous in in my in my mind at least a part of the continuing legacy of Divided loyalties here in our city. It just isn't fun to remember when everybody lost and to move on to Put it behind Referring as people did here and I'm not sure the origin of the phrase but referring to the recent Unpleasantness as something to get past and get on with looking to the future to progress Not dwelling in the past all of those things were in the minds of the people and the 18 after the war and into the 19th early 1900s and While there were efforts While there were people who did know very well where things happened and did know the value of what it could mean to Preserve these sites there was never enough popular support to do what needed to be done to make that happen So let's look at how Knoxville has commemorated historically and then I want to tell you a little bit about what we're doing now to Make it a little more a little easier for people to find that history first of all monuments I Think five or six years It's regularly does everybody know where this one is it's on 17th Street at the top of the hill This is very close to where Fort Sanders itself was But I kept driving path and you can see the fast lane is right there. It's in in the sidewalk There's no place to pull off Even the street to the to the to the freeway side of it You can't take a right-hand turn because it's one way in the other direction It's a very difficult to stop and see what this is all about and when school is in session Yeah, as you know trying to park anywhere around UT is almost impossible So this is one of those monuments took me a long time to figure out what it was all about And I kept thinking isn't it a shame the statue was knocked off the top Well, in fact, there never was a statue. This is what it looked like when it was installed in 1914 by the daughters of the Confederacy, UDC chapter 89 of Knoxville and Memorized of course the Fort Sanders location You can see the Folded the moldy the draped fabric, which is really very nice. Of course, it's local stone and there is Sorry, there is an inscription on there and it says erected by the daughters of the Confederacy November 19th 29th 1914 to the memory of the Confederate soldiers who fell in the assault on Fort Sanders Nor wreck nor change nor winter's blight nor times for morseless doom Shall dim one ray of glories light that gills your glorious tomb and so this has been really the main way that Knoxville ever acknowledged the site and the place of the battle of Fort Sanders and as you can see The road's been widened the sidewalks probably widened It just doesn't have that same resonance in any any way at all that those major National battlefields do Same thing with this monument. This is another one that you might think well, what's that all about? At first I thought this was something to do with the Scottish Rites Temple, which is right beside it In a way it is it was erected by the 79th Highlanders It was it was dedicated in 1918 and it was Well, if you can see there it was kind of between the curb and the chain link fence So just I was going to point out on the map on the wall and when they get a little more obscure I will as to where these are located and on our website. There will be a map that will have all of these sites Annotated so you can go to see any of them, but this one is is fairly obvious and people most people have some idea that it's Maybe to do with the Civil War and it is the 79th Highlanders were the regiment inside the fort when the cat came on November 29th And they came here in 1890 in large numbers for the first blue and gray reunion and then in 1918 This monument was commissioned and put On a 16th and white and it does happen to be near the Scottish Rites Temple I'm not sure if that's coincidence or not but of course the Highlanders were predominantly Scottish regiment and so there may be a connection between the land and the This is the plate placement of this temple when the building was finished It does look a little better now the chain link fence came down and the construction Was completed But nevertheless, it's not and it's another one that is not easy to figure out what it's all about Trying to stop and read it once again. There's no parking around there And nice Sunday morning might be a good time to go look at it this has the two soldiers blue and gray shaking hands and The monument itself says the hands that once were raised in strife now clasp a brother's hand and Long as flows the tide of life in peace or toil when war is rife We shall as brothers stand one heart one soul for our free land So by this time there was a real feeling of Respect for both sides respect for the soldiers the brothers soldiers by 1914 Of course, they were most of the veterans were getting quite elderly and there was a real feeling of having been through Tragedy together and there was a feeling of coming together and especially in a place like Knoxville Because as we know that people were as divided as the troops were here Now this is one you may not be as familiar with just curious to most people know about this one You are of course Civil War enthusiasts, so you may know but this one is in Mount Olive Cemetery Which is down in South Knoxville on the old Maryville Pike Mount Olive Church. Thank you not all of church is quite a an old church and Is monument It really is quite an interesting story, and it's a story that does not have very wide Not people people in a large in a wide area don't know about this story it is you can see there's sculpted into the stone is a Sidewheeler ship, and it says sultana on it the sultana was a private Vessel that was contracted by the well the now defunct Confederate Army this this was right after the the war and did right after well actually right after Lee signed The document in Appomattox there was a holding camp on the Mississippi River And most of the soldiers in that camp were Unionists who had been at Cahaba or at Andersonville These are guys that had made it through the whole of the war had made it through prison camp. We're on their way home and The ship itself was built to hold about 346 350 people they ended up putting about 2200 people on there. They were so eager to go home It was over they'd survived About eight miles above Memphis the boilers blew three of the four boilers And the overloading of this old ship was probably the reason why there are some conspiracy theories that perhaps there were There were gunpowder and the logs that they threw into the boilers or some idea that it might have been sabotaged and and That's hard to hard to do prove or disprove at this point But it's certainly possible that just because of the overloading and the condition that the boilers were in that they exploded and About there were 17 1800 casualties in fact about 400 Actually went into the water. They were severely burned Well, no, I better Bring my numbers back. There were 785 pulled from the river and many of them severely burned and of them 200 that more died So the total casualties about 1700 More than the involved and in this we knew all about it and Here we have the numbers Carved into this monument from Indigo 52 from Kentucky 125 from Michigan 243 460 from Tennessee 362 and the names that Kind of me this is a Sultana you can see it says Sultana here on the side and you can see how overloaded it was and And this is an artist's idea of what it looked like after the bloat boilers blew and then people ended in the water Many of them drowned Many of them couldn't swim So we have here in Knoxville one of the very few monuments to this disaster and a fairly active group of descendants who get together Regularly, I think I see Charlie Yes, yeah, I know that your family is a part of this When Mike Brown, I don't know is Mike here three of his uncles died in this disaster He's from South Knox County and in their private family cemetery. They had a monument an obelisk Constructed to this event Unfortunately, we went looking what he went looking for it. He and I were going to go take pictures And he went out to see to preview the site and the monument is gone Someone has taken it was a private family cemetery out in the woods unprotected monuments gone, but It's amazing that Three in one family were Survived the war survived prison camps and ended up on that ship Now sometimes there are monuments just because they are monumental in size This is of course What at the time was called the deaf and dumb asylum and I understand since then it's been many different things most recently the Duncan Law School from Lincoln Memorial University and before that was a TVA was in there and Anyway, if you look at this picture from 1865 You can see how Very similar that building still is This picture is still it was still trying to figure out exactly what it's all about They used to say that these were stacked guns and now they think maybe they're bean poles and that perhaps These wreaths would be mourning wreaths and that this was taken shortly after Lincoln's assassination Look at these two guys. I can't imagine standing up on top of that thing but there they are having their picture taken and 150 years later you can see it's very much the same this building was used throughout the war Confederates used it as a hospital union used it as a hospital and It was obviously it was what was built in 1848 was there all through the war and it still stands today All right, cemeteries Confederate cemetery was originally and still called Bethel Cemetery. It was Actually the idea and the creation of the ladies memorial society the ladies memorial society Ladies Memorial Association make sure I get the name right They began To come together lady. It's the ladies memorial society of Knoxville it was organized in 1868 and Mrs. Hugh McClung was the first president then McClung's were very much involved in Confederate remembrances all through the later years and into the 1900s also in the person of Ellen McClung green's husband. He was very active in Confederate veterans affairs and Anyway, they decided that they were going to re-inter the Confederate burials that were around and about and also some were already there eventually about 1600 were re-interred at Bethel Cemetery the name Bethel was chosen because in I wrote this down so I get the citation right Genesis 28 18 comma 19 Jacob puts piously puts up a stone pillar in a place. He called Bethel So that's the reason that they chose that name for the cemetery They always intended to put a monument in there and they had to work Well from 68 to 92 in order to raise enough money to to actually have this monument created and installed very impressive The stole soldier at the top is actually eight feet tall and he was sculpted and designed by Lloyd Branson of Who many know as an artist and painter in in Knoxville? I? Just like this picture. This was taken in color, but I know obviously very gray day in November and It's very somber place. It's also I don't know if you can see here Well out here. It's surrounded by chain link fence With barbed wire at the top. It's not a very inviting place It's also open only by appointment because it just can't be protected 24 hours a day, but it belongs to Mabry Hazen Foundation property and so if you ever want to go in to see this place you can Contact Mabry Hazen house and make an appointment, but it's it's locked almost always and less Less special arrangements are made now. This is also a very long inscription I spent quite a while trying to figure out what this said and then found out if I checked my Research it was already printed out, but what it says was Poem that perhaps was by one of the Politicians who was there who was also a poet the poem says and Their deeds proud deeds shall remain for us and their names dear names without stain for us And the glories they won shall not wane for us in legend and lay our heroes in gray Though dead shall live or over again for us So this is a very impressive local effort This was almost entirely funded by local contributions when it was Installed and this art there's a I should tell you where to if you want to read more about this There's a very good article in the East Tennessee History Journal of 1978 but they wrote all the details down about how the money was raised and how it was installed and quite an event in 1892 when it was when it was actually put up and they put a time capsule into the monument And the time capsule has lots of interesting things in it I don't know if anyone has ever opened the time capsule or if the ladies decided when opening the time capsule was a good idea But it would be a fascinating thing to do as part of the sesquicentennial if on the other hand It may have been opened Before now I don't know that but the contents of it are listed and it says they are in a copper box And so copper is a pretty good preservative so whatever is in there and in fact they tell you in the article What's in there for photographs and programs and copy of the speech and that kind of thing so Could be could be very interesting to open it up Now these around the the monument around the statue are these bronze plaques with names of soldiers It may be that there's not quite a one-to-one correspondence between the names and the bodies that are actually in there It was difficult to do very Precisely accurate research, but these names do represent the names of Confederate veterans who were in the area So these were put up in the 1950s so considerably after the time when the bodies were collected and reinterred We were over there last spring with some writers from all over Tourism had brought in and as I said that cemeteries normally locked so you can't get in and so Georgia family there was an 80 year old Grandmother great-grandmother and then some 60 year old kids and then 40 and then the young ones were back in Georgia In school that day they'd been in Gatlin Burke, but they had a fan piece of family history They were not genealogists. They hadn't gone looking for their family story but they knew somehow that the oldest ladies Great-grandfather had died in Knoxville November 29th 1863 Well, and they didn't they didn't know anything about the battle in Knoxville they didn't know the whole story of the that we know as Civil War enthusiasts here and We one of the people in the group checked with the ladies at Confederate Memorial Hall Confirmed his name Confirmed that he was on the list for being buried in the cemetery these people were astounded to find that connection this man had left behind a two-year-old son and that son was the Grandfather of the 80 year old lady and so the great-grandfather came to Knoxville having left his son behind without that son This whole branch of the family and there were quite a few of them would not be there And they were just very Touched to have that connection with that with their family past and I thought it was particularly nice It was a fall day lots of beautiful red and yellow leaves I don't know if they have maple trees in Georgia I guess they don't or at any rate they were unusual say we're collecting leaves so that they could press them and have a Remembrance of their relative that was buried there Now this union monument has an a very interesting story. It really was probably Because of the Confederate monument that they decided well, you know, probably would we better do something also because it was 1892 When the Confederate monument went up and very shortly thereafter they started planning for the Union monument This is a photograph of the of the first Monument this is a postcard colored postcard some of these are still out and about and you can see it's kind of got a Spires and doors. It was a castle motif It turned in and there was lots of discussion as to what they were going to do when there were ideas of doing a big archway At National Cemetery or doing some kind of other monument or memorial all around town a lot of discussion It again was done by subscription Some of some of the veterans a dollar a piece they collected some seven thousand dollars a dollar at a time from Union veterans and They the final design ended up putting this brass eagle on top with his wings expanded and this was a symbol of of unity a symbol of the whole nation and meant symbolically Well kind of a counterpoint to the Confederate soldier, which was oh well how far away I don't know two or three miles wherever knocks everybody does everybody know where Bethel Avenue is Yeah, I'll show you in the map too, but Bethel Avenue and this one is on it's off-Broadway at Tyson Right beside old Gray Cemetery. They're side by side. So anyway, here is the original monument for the for the Union soldiers and That's the monument today The reason there is no eagle up there anymore was basically it was a huge lightning rod It got struck by lightning it exploded the eagle absolutely flew into pieces all over Tyson Street all over the the rest of the cemetery and That was it for the eagle the they did manage to get a national Government grant to rebuild and they rebuilt it Almost exactly as it had been with the you know inside With these arches. There's a stained glass window. You can't I don't think you can go in there So anybody ever been cited? I think it's locked, but you can look in you can get inside But there's a stained glass window and it has statistics about how many Tennessee and spot for the Union how many died and It's really a very impressive monument this statue is Four feet higher than the statue at the Confederate cemetery For whatever reason and Yeah, and so this this is the one that almost nobody knows about I mean it in this group Yes, I would assume they'll most everybody here has seen it But most of Knoxville has no idea that this amazing monument is right here the Old Gray Cemetery Named for the poem by Thomas Gray elegy written in a country church yard It was actually started in 1850 as Knoxville's Out in the country cemetery out there in Broadway at that time was way out in the country So it was a country country graveyard It's really a beautiful place it's Alex Dempster tells us regularly and then it's absolutely true. It's an outdoor art gallery the sculpture the Symbolism the history there. It's just an amazing place to visit and you can see when the Flowers are in bloom. It's it's naturally lovely also Oliver Perry temple Yesterday two days ago. I went out there with a camera and I probably took 40 pictures of the various people I've been talking about as in their final resting places this of course Oliver Perry temple wrote in the 1890s wrote a book about the Tennesseans during the Civil War Horace Maynard another name his whole family is there he interestingly I don't know if Jack Neely is here, but Jack has written an interesting article about Horace Maynard's second son who actually died in the Caribbean while fulfilling a Statesman's post he was there as a as a as a diplomat and died in the Caribbean So the Maynard family is all there Pleasant McClung and those of you have been to my other lecture he lectures He's the one who had his legs blown off during Sanders raid in 1863 died Hours later, and then he is buried right there in Old Grey Cemetery suboid Barton who grew up in the blunt mansion and went on to become For a little while at least at least in her own mind William Sanders girlfriend until he was killed in November of 1863 Her name is suboid Barton. She lived to be 85 she was a Very prominent socially her husband she Lived way longer than her husband did had two sons both of whom died one who contracted yellow fever in the Philippines and died in San Francisco, so the stories in Old Grey Cemetery are so detailed and and just Names jump out at you when you started to read anything about the history of the Civil War Here are lays Eliza and Frank McClung and many of their children Very simple tombstones. There are some much more elaborate McClung stones, but Frank and Eliza's are very very simple Spot and Patty I Almost feel like their friend their friends spot was the one who came up from Alabama and managed to get thrown out of the Confederate Army shortly after he joined and then he then he kept fighting anyway Even though he wasn't officially part of it ended up moving to Knoxville Married met and married Patty and She continues to be in the Knoxville social pages and she she's volunteers your time and she's on the various boards of things and does charitable work and I just like that that what they put on their tombstone here. I just make them the happy dead. I Don't know what that means, but somehow it seems very positive National Cemetery Well, of course National Cemetery just over here is where you're going to see that big monument But the rest of it as you can see is huge. It's concentric circles and starts in the middle There's one central place and then spokes go out from that and the graves are all in Concentric circles going out from that center. So the names are Facing towards the center of the circle makes it a little more difficult to read if you don't want to get out of your car So you need you need pretty much need to get out of your car to go look at what the the what the stones say But there are veterans here from every war since 1863 General Nalen is buried in here and many of the names that we recognize from the Civil War stories around town Joel P. Higley for instance Fort Higley on the south side of the river Was named for Joel Higley. He was a captain from Ohio and when you look at the details These are all Civil War stones. These guys are from New Hampshire from North Carolina from Tennessee from Kentucky all intermixed The 79th Highlanders this print was put out. I Couldn't quite read the details, but it was in the later 1800s and of course visiting the graves of the fallen Recognizing those that fell away from home and far away. This was an important part of the regimental get-togethers Regimental history and so this print was done for the Highlanders and you can read all of the names on the stone You can see here the center This is the same configuration that's there today the center and then the Graves radiating radiating out from that The 103rd Ohio came here Shortly after Burnside showed up. They were stationed on the south side of the river They were the green troops that faced long streets veterans of Gettysburg and Chancellor's Hill and Maybe I've got that right Gettysburg and Fredericksburg and Chickamauga and They have met every year since 1888 of course now. It's all of the descendants, but they have an organization on the lakes of near Sandusky, Ohio on the Great Lake up there and This that was originally built as a barracks and the guys would get together once a year and have a reunion now it's their museum and Many of the families who are descendants of this regiment have homes on the lake and every summer Faithfully for a week they get together as part of the continuing tradition They have 15 of their soldiers buried at well at National Cemetery here now in the history of the war it's Very interesting that in Knoxville In in 1864 in March actually they started a little earlier than that But by March they were the recruiting was going on very intensely the first US colored troops heavy artillery was formed and With stationed here and they have a little bit a little bit of time in Greenville, but mostly stationed in Knoxville they had about 1100 men maximum and the records the Handwritten regimental records are fascinating to look at that would be a great topic for a Masters project or PhD dissertation to do this history because the history of African-Americans in Knoxville during and before during and even right after the war is it's hard to get at and One of the ways you can get some information See if my computer is overheating so One more time There we go These are graves of some of the US colored troops you can see here company I 14th Regiment US colored infantry over here battery D First US colored heavy artillery But they're all intermixed and behind them here this this man is the US Navy World War one We have others World War two it's In one way you might say that there was equality and death that these stones were not designated in any way there are everyone has the same stones these are US colored troops, but they are that that insignia doesn't mean anything different than than being part of the Union Army and here's a particular One Freeman Welsh battery D first US colored heavy artillery died right after the war And this is the stone if anyone has seen Steve Dean's documentary called holding the high ground This is stone is featured there the fact that this man Was free by well about a month when he died here in Knoxville and again as I said the Stones in and around are from all different wars and places Now this is an interesting story. I did a talk for a lunch group from the Jewish Community Center and One of the men at the talk said did you know that the Jewish cemetery in Knoxville got started during the Civil War? I said no I had no idea and he gave me some Fascinating research that had been done on the old Jewish cemeteries at the corner corner of Lyndon and Winona and In the Knoxville Daily Register, which is the Confederate paper published here in 1862 it says that private Joseph Schwab Country Sea First Infantry Maynes, Tennessee Infantry Regiment also known as the Roxy guards that his body was returned From Virginia and he was buried in the Jewish cemetery. Well, he was one of the first I believe that there was no Jewish cemetery until this point So he would these Jewish veterans were the first this is what the cemetery looks like Small and these are the stones. This is Joseph Schwab 1862 and Over here. This is Isaac Stern. So these two young men were Confederate volunteers now every time you start to go into study things You always find questions. This says that he was born in 1911 Which makes him 52 which seems rather old for I'm sorry. I Mean no, it makes him if he died in 63 and he was born in 11 He's 52 years old, right? That's old for private and then I thought well, maybe that's his father, but no his father's name was not Joseph so Not quite sure about that date of birth, but the date of death certainly Corresponds with serving in the Confederate army plus both of these young men died of disease Which was by far the more common way for people to pass on during the war now Sometimes there are monuments to individuals and this is a story that was here in the museum from Ellen McClung Green and her husband Judge John Green Judge John Green was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Marion Green from Oxford, Mississippi I think that's such a wonderful name and has this Revolutionary War heritage and all of that but Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Green died at Spotsylvania in Virginia and They're in John Green's letters that talks about taking a special trip to find his father's grave They took a picture of the tombstone and had it professionally Mounted and you know used before digital cameras. You remember when we all used this it was important If something was important you would hire a professional photographer and had it have it mounted and all of that and anyway That's what they did and this was almost a family Shrine to the fact that this man had died up there in Virginia. So this is a picture of the stone in the Virginia Cemetery Now this is a very sad story and how many here have heard of ES Dodd Ephraim Shelley Dodd He was a young man from Texas. He was in the Texas Rangers. This is not a real To well, it is a real tombstone But there's not a real body underneath it and it's actually it was purchased and this can be done to commemorate this Man's death because we know for a fact he died here in Knoxville But this one is out in the garden near Bleak house on Kingston Pike and it was bought I believe by the UDC to commemorate the death of this young man. He It's also interesting here, too. This is called the oarth map and familiar with it because of the Detail for Fort Sanders, but over here in this script it documents the hanging of Ephraim Shelley Dodd When Long Street left town in December early December of 63 He apparently hanged a couple of Michiganders on the way out of town as spies and so there was a feeling of Needing to even the score also the gallows had been used for bridge burners and other unionists during the Occupation and during the hold of the confederate time period and there was the idea to that Confederate needed to be hung there also hanged there also When I I've read the transcript of Dodd's trial They said he he was a spy. He was in fact wearing a union overcoat So was every confederate out there who could have taken a confederate overcoat off Someone who fell maybe at Campbell station maybe from the supplies that were left It was just that was not concrete. He right wrote a diary and Apparently he wrote he wrote with the Texas Rangers He came to up with Wheeler to the south side of Knoxville got separated from the Cavalry's trying to get back and Probably he did impersonate a Yankee when he was behind the Yankee lines that makes sense whether he was a spy who was there to collect information to pass on for the Benefit of the confederate troops probably not but there was circumstantial evidence that somehow he was impersonating a union a union soldier So at first he was acquitted. He was going to be sent out of back out of town He was going to be sent to a prison camp. His story is detailed also in Ellen Renshaw houses store Not diary a very violent rebel. Well in any case he was Pull pulled out of line and they said no you're guilty you will hang and they did hang him It was a terrible way to go also the first time the rope broke and he fell and broke his leg And then he had to be hung again. Yeah, so it was a terrible story and probably a man Who was not guilty of the crime for which he was he was convicted so this this stone does commemorate Who he was and that he died here? Now another of course is William Sanders and Sanders has an interesting story He we know that he was shot on the hillside outside Second Presbyterian present day present Presbyterian church across the street from Crescent Bend He was taken downtown to the Bijou. Well, it's called Lamar house at the time He died there at the Lamar house hotel. He was buried at Second Presbyterian Cemetery Now Second Presbyterian at that time was down on Church Street across the street from the Methodist Church, so there were two churches there on Church Street and So that he so Sanders was buried there. Well, of course later the church land was sold Second Presbyterian Church moved down to where it is now off Kingston Pike And if the land was sold and most many of the bodies were moved to Old Gray Cemetery And maybe that's when Sanders was moved We know from a letter that was written right after Sanders was was was killed This was a letter written by William Harris to Sanders mother Saying that he was going to be buried here But it was Sanders wished to be buried in Kentucky so that that would be that would happen later Well Sanders never got to Kentucky and in fact there is his grave in Chattanooga and His the records in Chattanooga don't say exactly when he got there They're kind of vague as to when he showed up. So there is in the local paper the alt Chapter of the of the veteran veterans group And one of their I think it was in the 1890s and I'd have to recheck that date But it was it was fairly long after the war it says that they have this is still in Knoxville They have to go and tend to the grave of Sanders which is still here in town So that gives us a little more of a Zeroing in on when he was actually moved, but this is a photo of his grave in Chattanooga. Thank you Tammy Now this is this is a little more upbeat John Mason Boyd This is a beautiful monument and everybody knows who this is the corner of the old courthouse at gay and Gay is a gay and not main gay and main Yes and it was It says in memoriam to our to our beloved physician dr. John Mason Boyd He was Sue Boyd's older brother. He was a surgeon in the Confederate army he was a doctor in Knoxville for many many years very highly respected and When he died the citizens of Knoxville took up a collection again pennies from school children Very broad community support to put this monument up for him so it doesn't say anything particularly about the Civil War except that he was a very good man who was valued by the community and Because this monument is Well, it's just a block or two away from where he practiced medicine for so many years out of Blunt Mansion and Another interesting individual father Abram Ryan Apparently at least from one of the biographies I read of John Mason Boyd He and Abram father Abram Ryan were good friends father Ryan came to town Catholic priests shortly after the Civil War you can see the dates there. He was called the poet priest of the Confederacy And he was here at Immaculate Conception Church, which is down Well, how to explain it so everybody know where Immaculate Conception Church is set the it's on the precipice looking over the train tracks at the at the far end of downtown and he was here for a couple of years and It has it has a very interesting story of his own But that this is the kind of plaque that our historical Commission. Is that the one there? That's also well. We'll get on to that relics and reunions in the 1890 there was a blue and gray reunion here and these things I'm gonna go through these quickly so I can get on to another topic These are the kinds of things that commemorate in a small way in a personal memento way and this is a copy well a picture of the metal that was Designed and created for the 1890 reunion. You can see there the little soldiers going up It's really quite a lot steeper and taller than it was in real life, but this is the battle representation of the battle of Fort Sanders And this is the backside of it and like the New York Regiment. This is the blue and the gray soldier shaking hands Coming together. This is 1890, which is almost 30 years before the New York regiment monument went in and There were other Many other Gatherings of veterans here this one it says delegate and its sons of veterans And this is actually the group that came after the GAR Grand Army of the Republic and this says Knoxville And you can't see it too well, but there is a representation here of Knoxville, Tennessee This is another one those who are into Numismatics coins and metals and that sort of thing. These are very impressive pieces This one says 1895 national encampment Knoxville, Tennessee and in the center There's a Latin inscription that translates roughly. Thanks Thanks to God for saving us and that's a good motto for veterans. Certainly Now this is something that I've found that I haven't seen many of this is China you know, it's obviously it's got the little roses on it, but in the center Battle of Fort Sanders November 29th 1863 Knoxville, Tennessee and then on the back it says China made in Austria for Cullen and Gammon Knoxville, Tennessee And I'm hoping there's somebody in the audience who knows who Cullen and Gammon are does anybody recognize that name It was not uncommon for People who purveyors of fine China to have commemorative plates done And this one obviously was done for Knoxville audience Okay, I'm gonna go through these quickly as you know There are a lot of plaques out there some of them you can stop and read this one Maybe so this is at the top of the hill where you would enter into Fort Dickerson But it's not easy to find and it's anyway, but this is the the Tennessee Historical Commission for years has been putting up these kinds of plaques and They they are certainly serve a purpose without them So many of these sites would not have any recognition at all. So I want to show you a few of these around town This is again at the top of the hill at Fort Sanders not too far from the UDC monument to the Battle of Fort Sanders Again, there's nothing much else there, but there is a sign that describes the Attack the assault on November 29th We'll see battery will see this is very near the Immaculate Conception Church where Father Ryan was and this is this is a nice Excluded place you can't actually get up in that area and park the car and look at the view you can understand Why there was a battery positioned at this place you could see the nice expanse out towards the railroad tracks and beyond there and Will see was a An officer from Michigan many of the site many of the batteries and forts were named for Michiganders Fort Bynton. Well, this is right on UT campus. This is on the sign is on Kingston Pike It's not easy to get to actually I between the construction on the hill student traffic one-way streets and Kingston Pike It's not an easy one to stop and read but this is on the strip of land and well, obviously this is the this is the old library across the street and this is Cumberland here not Kingston Pike and again Tennessee Historical Commission put this one up a long time ago These are most of them are fairly weathered Those numbers at the top there should be a list somewhere. I went looking all over the internet for it I found one place that told me there are 860 of these things in Tennessee and another one that told me there were 1230 I guess it depends on You know that sometimes it's the Tennessee Historical Commission and then there are historic Landmarks there are National Historic Register sign it depends on what you include in historic marker, but there are many of them And of course, they're not simply They're not they're more than the Civil War era. They're all historic heroes Now sometimes you can see how short this one is and it's a little it looks like the bulldozer hit it while it was re Landscaping this one is down on nail-and-drive at just at the end right very close to our to our museum and Says West Wing and Burnside's entrenchments Sometimes these signs get moved when people when the road gets widened when the highway department does some improvement so I'm not sure how close this is to Where it was originally put in although maybe it's exactly where it was just where it was originally put in but it's again It's one of those very difficult to stop and read if you're interested and Then this one out at Campbell station also busy street But important because for many many years this was all that was out there to mark the spot However, we now have a new program Tennessee Civil War Trails program It's supported by our Department of Tourism and Transportation and also local spots the the people who are sponsor the original Installation cost of $1100 our local and then it's a $200 a year maintenance fee But then you get to participate in this program with Very good Advertising and signage. This is our former mayor Bill Haslam opening the sign at Old Gray Cemetery last year And that's what the sign looks like. They're they're they're nicely done. They are unobtrusive They kind of blend into the scenery, but they have good well established documentation of why the site is important and Also GPS coordinates and podcasts and all sorts of things that go out Making at this site now part of the network So all of the sites here for instance now remember that poor sign out in Campbell station great where the monument well no money where no monument was Farragut has done a beautiful job of installing this admiral Farragut statue and These are actual cannons from his from his ship I don't know who managed to find it those and get them to be a part of the Farragut Park here, but it's a wonderful Addition to knowing about what happened to Civil War what Civil War history of course Farragut didn't do anything in Farragut except be born there, but That's a pretty good story Now also Bleakhouse or Confederate Memorial Hall has a Civil War trail sign Fort Dickerson has a Civil War trail sign and Fort Dickerson has been quite active in For many years because of the Civil War roundtable So we're roundtable cleans up the park and helps spread mulch and once a year puts on a living history weekend So Fort Dickerson has been one of the sites in town where we have commemorated Civil War history fairly consistently And here's another one of those Civil War trail signs this is up near the top of the hill at Fort Sanders and Of course museums and exhibits everybody knows this one and we will continue with the lecture program and having periodic information on our website about things going on here about what Civil War interest and of course your wonderful East Tennessee Historical Society History Center downtown this the Exhibits and then the McClung collection the documentation the county records all of the genealogy Possibilities this is a real treasure for all of us who want to research Civil War time and Farragut Folklife Museum. I just took this out of their newsletter. They have They will be doing a Civil War exhibit. They will be having speakers throughout the summer and they will be Concentrating on their Civil War heritage. So these are three places, but We're also I want to make be sure in the last four minutes to talk about this south of the river There's a wonderfully ambitious project to save a thousand acres of land The Aslan Foundation has saved Fort Higley in 2007 and some of the log haven property Battle of Armstrong Hills or River Bluff site Which is on the river side of the of the property south of the river has been purchased by legacy parks And they're trying to get Fort Stanton the land at Fort Stanley The object is to start at I am's and have greenways and trails and open space and History interpreted It's just beautiful land and it is so close to our urban center and so much Endangered several times now several a lot of this acreage was slated to go condo and has been saved Because of a downturn in the economy. So this is a very important community project This is what it looked like when the land was cleared for the condominiums that are there now All this red dirt in fact Civil War bullets came out of the ground a sword came out of the ground a Jawbone with teeth in it human came out of the ground up here and yet this was still allowed to be developed because we really weren't Couldn't couldn't make the case for this being valuable Civil War site part of it is still Saved part of it is now saved because of the purchase of the land by legacy parks and the Aslan Foundation This beautiful quarry on Fort Dickerson property is just spectacular if there's been a new access road created It is now accessible and and it's for years. It's kind of been a hidden treasure, but it's now been made accessible by The city parks and this is a view across the river looking at the bluff property these ridge tops This beautiful Tennessee land is so important to preserve and this is what Fort Dicker Fort Stanley looks like this was a we were up there in a month soon It was in the Sun just came out, but it was so hot and wet But you can see there are still earthworks Civil War your earthworks on Fort Stanley and this property is Hopefully they'll raise enough money to purchase it Also, we've been doing some Civil War archaeology. I'll go through this quickly. This is at Fort Higley beautiful The the the exact Fort is still there all of these it's interrupted in a couple of places by modern construction But all of the earthworks are there the gum and placements are there you can see where the probably the powder magazine was and Because of the archaeology and survey here We have very precise records of what it looks like now and how well preserved it is and hopefully this site will be opened Interpreted made available for the for the public to appreciate Fort Higley cabin site. This is down in a beautiful Cove to the south of Fort Higley the local story is that it was used as a hospital during the Battle of Armstrong Hill Unfortunately, we did not prove that it was used as a hospital, but we did not not prove it So I think that's that's important and it was the artifacts that came out of it did establish this site as a Settlers cabin all of the ceramics were right and Mostly was excavated that area here is right in front of the hearth and We had some very interesting very interesting stuff come out of the What was a root cellar in front of the hearth? So it was a very it was fascinating experience I wish we'd found that femur with a mini ball in it that we all hoped for but that didn't happen so and Then there was another Excavation done this was done on the UT property a front in front of Tyson, Jr. High School This was a Confederate gun in placement that we know that Kershaw was well He was basically over here in Crescent Bend, and we had artillery from South Carolina women artillery from Georgia and troops from South Carolina in this Confederate Gun in placement you can see Some of the features along here these are the hars that are dug into the wall so these guys could try to keep warm and The artifacts if you're interested in number of the artifacts from this dig our display Aren't display on the wall out here and to the left of the Fort Sanders exhibit one of the beautiful pieces of Ceramics that came out of there. This is Edgefield pottery Produced in South Carolina and Georgia very consistent. These guys were in this position for about two weeks 150 years ago, and yet the stuff that came out of the ground was very very clearly left by them and This is that's just a little bit of a Edited this to show you the Knoxville Civil War Gateway Center But we have it have an agreement with the wonderful folks at Blunt Mansion that they are Visitor Center at the top of Gay Street Bridge will be our downtown Civil War Gateway. This will give people a place to go in and get walking tours learn about the history of Knoxville downtown and the areas driving tours will be provided and It'll just be a way for people to have a single location to go to begin learning about the history of Knoxville Civil War East Tennessee Alliance Civil War Alliance. This group's been meeting for about four years now to get ready for the Suscous intended planning this group. It's an alliance as it says Many of the historic home folks of museum folks University I'll get together to talk in one place once a month about joint promotion and support of each other's efforts and I'm gonna stop because I I'm I always prepare way too much material for it for it, but let me just go down You want to you want to see them? Ah, all right. If you're and if if you're good with this, I'll keep going these Wonderful historic homes were all here during the Civil War They all have incredible stories. This one of course is Bleak house This was Long Streets headquarters during the siege of Knoxville that tower You know, I think everybody knows the story about the cannonball being fired from Fort Sanders hitting the tower rooting the sharp shooters out of there Crescent Bend was occupied by Kershaw general Kershaw from South Carolina and This was taken over well Mcgraw is also there a couple of generals that stayed here the generals get to stay in the houses the troops did not At Chris Boyd family story at Blunt mansion Blunt mansion has a wonderful colonial story has always had rich Interpretation of that time period but until recently it really didn't know too much about its Civil War history And so they are delighted to have another story to tell and also very happy to share that building at the top of the Gay Street Bridge with us so that we can Tell their story and the larger story from a location downtown of course, Maybury-Hazen house in association with Bethel Cemetery and The fact that this one was occupied by troops through or through by officers and troops on the ground throughout the war Ramsey house the Ramsey family were very staunch Confederates This was not JGM Ramsey's house his house was burned to the ground along with his historical library But this bill he this was a house. He was raised in in the house where his parents lived and then out at Campbell station This one the Russell house Hopefully is going to be saved. It's on the market. It's there hoping to be able to preserve it and Interpret the story of the course it predates the Civil War But it was there owned by the Russell family during the Civil War And I wanted to show you this one This is true That guy on the right is a real person. They both came from Mississippi when I went to do some research on Peyton I found out his parents names were sis and bud That's not very useful when you go looking for ancestors So they have real names and I have I actually wrote to Archie for the father and said No, it was Archie's parents who was sis and bud Archie is the father the grandfather anyway, so I didn't get too far on it, but If you imagine and I've done this sometimes if you have a smart board in class you can put a mustache and long hair on Peyton the football player and The he has the same hooded eyes. His nose is similar They're both Peyton Manning from Mississippi I can't believe they're not somehow related if not distantly, but they may be closely related. This guy was about 540 pounds would not have done well in the football Leagues, however, he was quite a fighter apparently he nearly killed a guy was stabbed himself when he was in military school He was on Long Street staff for most of the war some of the books say he was here. I don't think he was I don't think he came with Long Street, but he was definitely down in Chattanooga with Long Street before they came this way so That's all