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By far the most famous Civil War-era event that occurred in La Grange was Grierson's Cavalry Raid. In April 1863, Union Col. Benjamin H. Grierson led 1, 700 mounted cavalry from La Grange to Baton Rouge, covering 600 miles in sixteen days.
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List of all Battle Sites. The Interactive Map is part of the TCWPA Preservation Plan to memorialize certain Civil War battlefields in Tennessee originally identified by the Civil War Sites Advisory Committee including 122 sites recommended for further study.
During the war La Grange and nearby Grand Junction were relatively important cities in the area. There were many more people living there during the war than there are now. One marker in town says 3000 lived in LaGrange in 1862.
Apr 20, 2011 · While in this same month, Confederate, Maj. Gen.Earl Van Dorn was planning to converge with forces under Maj. Gen. Sterling Price and Maj. Gen. John C. Breckenridge at Grand Junction, 3 miles to the east of La Grange for the purpose of attacking Grant's extended line in West Tennessee.
The Battle of Newton's Station was an engagement on April 24, 1863, in Newton's Station, Mississippi, during the famous Grierson's Raid of the American Civil War (1861-1865). [1]
- April 24, 1863
- Union victory
- Newton's Station, Mississippi
This sourcebook aims at chronicling the military, economic, social and political history associated with the Civil War as it happened in Tennessee. The sources consulted were diaries, period newspapers, official Civil War records, diaries, ship deck logs, letters, and historical articles.
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This beautiful small town became a Union supply base and, later, headquarters for Gen. William T. Sherman. As a key supply base 1862-1865, La Grange suffered from Union occupation during the Civil War.
