Knox County, Tennessee in the

      The purpose of this page is to provide links to text, maps, photos, and other helpful resources for those interested in the impact of the Civil War on Knox County, Tennessee.

Because of its importance to transportation and commerce in East Tennessee, Knoxville was held for periods of time by both the Union and Confederate Armies.   Confederate occupation was particularly difficult, since central East Tennessee was sympathetic to the Union.   Following its success in Chattanooga, the Union Army marched northward to recapture Knoxville from the Confederates.
      A site near the present-day University of Tennessee was the focus of an intense battle that lasted only 20 minutes on November 29, 1863.   Historian Digby Seymour provides a description of the Battle of Knoxville in his work, Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders and the Civil War in East Tennessee (Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1990):

      With a rush and a yell the surging gray column advanced up the hill toward Ft. Sanders.   As they neared the fort the leading lines crashed through brush barriers and bowled them aside like tenpins, but in the darkness the men tripped and stumbled over the telegraph wires stretched between the stumps.   As the lead troops began tearing and kicking at the wires, they were knocked over by the sheer weight of numbers of the rest of the onrushing troops.   At the moment of delay and confusion, one cannon...in the fort fired two quick rounds of canister into the storming party, but quickly closing their ranks the Confederates reached the ditch and chased away the gunners exposed on the platform.
      The rapid advance in almost complete darkness over terrain filled with obstacles and converging furrows brought the attacking force in a packed mass whose officers could no longer distinguish their own men.   Hesitating only momentarily, the men swarmed into the ditch which they had been told was no more than four feet deep. They expected to get a toe hold on the berme and scale the parapet with one leap. But as they surged into the ditch they discovered to their horror that in places it was more than eleven feet deep, the embankment was slippery and icy, the berme had been cut away, and the parapet had been built up very high with cotton bales.   Many of the men, not knowing what else to do, fired into the embrasures at any of the Federals foolish enough to show their heads.
(page 193)

	The Civil War in Knoxville and Some Sources for Research in the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries, by Anne Bridges	http://www.lib.utk.edu/~rudolph/utkpubs/infoissues/civilwar.html
	The Knoxville Civil War Roundtable	http://www.korrnet.org/kcwrt/
	McClung Museum Civil War Site University of Tennessee, Knoxville	http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/cwknox/cwknox.htm
	A Visit to Knoxville, February 1, 1864 (from the Boston Evening Transcript)	http://www.knoxcotn.org/knoxcw/bet1864.html
	The Valley of East Tennessee in the Civil War, by Ernest I. Miller (Cincinnati Civil War Roundtable)	http://members.aol.com/CintiCWRT/knox.html
	Civil War Driving Tour of Knoxville	http://www.korrnet.org/kcwrt/sites/sd-text.htm
	"Parson" W. G. Brownlow Knoxville's strongest Union voice	http://www.knoxcotn.org/knoxcw/brownlow.html
	Tennessee Civil War Homepage	http://members.aol.com/jweaver303/tn/tncwhp.htm
	U. S. Colored Soldiers 230,000 records from the database of the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System	http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/usct.html
	National Archives Digital Photo Exhibit	http://gopher.nara.gov:70/0h/inform/dc/audvis/still/civwar.html
	Boyle's Civil War Net concentration on Confederate documents	http://www.civil-war.net/
	American Civil War Home Page	http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
	US Civil War Center - Index to Civil War Information on the Web	http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.htm
	War of the Rebellion Images of the original pages from this 60-volume set, including reports, correspondence, seizures of Southern property, etc. sent to the War Dept. during the Civil War. Includes both Union and Confederate accounts. In chronological order; no on-line index. Many libraries have the index in bound volumes.	http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2/WARO.html
	Civil War Letters compiled by Bill Proudfoot; also contains a good resources page	http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html
	Civil War Archaeology in Tennessee	http://www.ra.utk.edu/tc/arch/counties/forthill.html
	Tennessee Civil War Units Criss-Cross (look up by name, number, or county)	http://www.tngenweb.org/units.htm
	Civil War Artillery Page	http://www.cwartillery.org/artillery.html
	This Week in the Civil War	http://www.civilweek.com
	Shotgun's Home of the Civil War	http://www.civilwarhome.com
	Sons of Union Veterans	http://suvcw.org/
	Tennessee Sons of Confederate Veterans	http://tennessee-scv.org/
	Grand Army of the Republic	http://pages.prodigy.com/CGBD86A/garhp.htm
	General Officers of the Civil War Photos of officers	http://people.delphi.com/yatsuo/go_main.htm
	Texas Civil War Pensioners Database Numerous Tennesseans migrated to Texas, where they applied later for pensions	http://link.tsl.state.tx.us/c/compt/pension.html