Historical Markers in Sewanee, Tennessee

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Historical Markers in Sewanee, Tennessee

1 ► Tennessee, Franklin County, Sewanee — 2E 21 — Army of Tennessee — July 4, 1863 —

Here, and extending 2 miles S.W., occurred the last battle of the Middle Tennessee Campaign. Protecting Bragg's withdrawal, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, with Texas Rangers and the 4th Tenn. Cav., repulsed an attack by the 5th & 6th Ky. Cav., under Col. . . . — — Map (db m24192) HM

2 ► Tennessee, Franklin County, Sewanee — 2E 79 — Desegregation of Franklin County Public Schools —

Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education, eight local families initiated a lawsuit to compel Franklin County to desegregate the public school system. The plaintiffs included the Bates, Cameron, Camp, Goodstein, Hill, Sisk, Staten, and . . . — — Map (db m153772) HM

3 ► Tennessee, Franklin County, Sewanee — Edmund Kirby Smith — May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893 —

He was a career United States Army officer and educator. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg. . . . — — Map (db m25437) HM

4 ► Tennessee, Franklin County, Sewanee — 2E 55 — Rebel's Rest —

Here, before the War Between the States, stood the frame residence of Bishop Leonidas Polk of Louisiana, a principal founder of the University of the South. Here were built in 1866 the first two log cabins of postwar Sewanee by Bishop Charles T. . . . — — Map (db m25430) HM

5 ► Tennessee, Franklin County, Sewanee — 2E 82 — Saints Rest —

At this site stands Saints Rest, among the three oldest remaining houses in Sewanee. Erected in 1870 by Charlotte Bull Barnwell Elliott, widow of a founding Episcopal bishop from Georgia, Stephen Elliott, it was part of the postwar revival of the . . . — — Map (db m153775) HM

6 ► Tennessee, Franklin County, Sewanee — 2E 8 — University of the South —

Founded Jan. 6, 1858, under charter granting perpetual direction by the Episcopal Church in Ala., Ark., Ga., La., Miss., N. Car., S. Car., Tenn., and Texas. Nearby, Leonidas Polk, Bishop of La., later Lt. Gen., C.S.A., laid the cornerstone for the . . . — — Map (db m62036) HM

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