Battle of Nashville at 150
NASHVILLE — There’s still a gouge cut into the slope of Shy’s Hill in Nashville where Confederate soldiers hunkered down in a trench 150 years ago. It was the last big battle in the western theater of the Civil War, and the place where the Union army broke...News From Around the South 12/8 – 12/15
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