Near Noah in Coffee County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Old Isham

Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, October 16, 2021

1. Old Isham Marker

Inscription.
CSA
Honored mount
of
Gen. Cheatham

Erected 2002 by Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Animals • War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Sons of Confederate Veterans/United Confederate Veterans series list.

Location. 35° 34.677′ N, 86° 12.559′ W. Memorial is near Noah, Tennessee, in Coffee County. It is on French Brantley Road 0.2 miles east of Cheatham Springs Road, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 976 French Brantley Rd, Wartrace TN 37183, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Middle Tennessee

and in the Highland Rim.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least

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8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Fort Nash (approx. 3.7 miles away); Henry Watterson (approx. 3.7 miles away); Confederate 1st/3rd Kentucky Calvalry (approx. 3.8 miles away); Tullahoma Campaign (approx. 3.8 miles away); a different marker also named Tullahoma Campaign (approx. 3.8 miles away); a different marker also named Tullahoma Campaign (approx. 3.8 miles away); General A. P. Stewart's Division (approx. 3.8 miles away); 20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (approx. 3.8 miles away).

Regarding Old Isham. According to the Coffee County Historical Society:

This is the grave of CSA General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham’s war horse Old Isham, named for Isham Harris, Confederate governor of Tennessee. Gen. Cheatham took the horse home with him to his farm after the war and when the horse died, he buried him with full military honors. In 2002, the Sons of Confederate Veterans located and marked the grave with a tombstone and dedicated the grave with speeches and a salute with rifles and cannon. Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Cheatham (October 20, 1820 – September 4, 1886) was a Tennessee planter
Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, October 16, 2021

2. Old Isham Marker
and California gold miner. He served in the Army of Tennessee, inflicting many casualties on Sherman at Kennesaw Mountain.

Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham image. Click for full size.

Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division., circa 1865

3. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham

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