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Memorial Honoring Those Who Served
W. W. I
Pete Thompson •
Arty C. Moody •
Robert Groom
W. W. II
Harley H. Johnson •
William E. Stockdale •
Charles R. Gibson •
L. W. Thompson •
Vernon B. Thompson . . . — — Map (db m278060) WM
This was a busy landing and crossing point on the Tennessee River; a waterway of strategic importance during the war. After the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862, the Confederates’ hope of maintaining control of Paris Landing . . . — — Map (db m109035) HM
In early March 1864, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman took command of the Union armies in the war's Western Theater. His immediate strategy was to move from his base in Chattanooga toward Atlanta, capture the city's Confederate supply depot, and in the . . . — — Map (db m225310) HM
This section of Scott Fitzhugh Bridge that once spanned the Tennessee River at Paris Landing is preserved on this site as a memorial to Mr. Fitzhugh, Paris attorney who served as Speaker of the State Senate. The original bridge, built in 1930, was . . . — — Map (db m225311) HM
Supply by River and Rail
Beginning with the capture of Nashville by the Union army in February 1862, hundreds of thousands of tons of materials flowed from northern industrial and agricultural areas south, through Louisville, Kentucky . . . — — Map (db m225314) HM
