Grant's Headquarters Site Marker

HEADQUARTERS
GENERAL U.S. GRANT
NIGHT OF APRIL 6, 1862

General Grant in his memoirs says, "During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed without shelter. I made my headquarters under a tree a few hundred yards back from the river bank." The large oak tree referred to, standing where this marker now stands, was destroyed by cyclone October 14, 1909

(3-04) Grant's headquarters marker at dusk. Tennessee River in background