Macon County In The Civil War

Macon County In The Civil War. . , 1. There was an Enlistment Center and Civil War Hospital in the Webb Hotel (later the Dedman and then the Palace Hotel. The Palace Nursing Home at 309 Main Street, Red Boiling Springs is on this location now). , 2. The mineral resort of Epperson Springs Hotel was the site of an Enlistment Center located at 9695 Epperson Springs Road. , 3. General Braxton Bragg had his headquarters at Gibbs Cross Roads (then called Witchers Crossroads). , 4. There were three skirmishes in Macon County with loss of life in each one. The Gibbs Cross Roads Area was the site of one skirmish and is marked with a sign at 7651 Union Camp Road. , 5. A skirmish occurred at Meadorville 4 miles of Lafayette and it is marked with a sign at Ferguson Hill Road in the Meadorville Missionary Baptist Church cemetery. , 6. There was a skirmish 4 miles from Lafayette and it is marked with a sign at 4224 Amersville Road. , 7. Union troops camped at the falls area of Union Camp near the Union Missionary Baptist Church, 4789 Union Camp Road. , 8. Macon Countian Elvis Brooks Parker was executed by firing squad at General John Hunt Morgan’s headquarters in Hartsville, Tn. He had brothers on both sides of the War and he served in the Federal and the Confederate armies. , 9. There was a camp of Union soldiers “at the junction of the West Fork of Long Creek with Long Creek” and another camp at the “beautiful springs” of Winding Stairs. , 10. Salt Peter, to be used as gunpowder, was mined at a cave located at 4277 Oakdale Road. , 11. There was a possible underground railroad hideout in a cave on Long Creek in what was known as Negro Hollow. , 12. Macon County had equal numbers of men of both sides of the war. There was heavy ‘guerilla’ activity throughout the county.