Memphis, Tennessee Page6
Photos this page courtesy of Matt Hering, Memphis, TN and Mike O'Neal, MS
  

(7-04) Washburn used this alley to evade Forrest's troopers during their August, 1864 Memphis raid. Washburn was able to escape to the safety of Fort Pickering, south of Memphis

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(7-04) Marker Civil War Capitol. After the fall of Nashville in February, 1862, the Tennessee state government was moved to Memphis. The wartime structure sat at this location

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(7-04) The Memphis Appeal, the city's main newspaper during the war and still today, was located in a building that stood here. The day before Memphis was occupied by Federal troops, the owner of the newspaper moved all his equipment to Mississippi, later traveling all across the Confederacy, continuing to print the Appeal as he went

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(7-04) These cobblestones mark the site where most of the Memphis cotton trading took place, before, during, and after the war. The cobblestones are original

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(6-05) Enlarge Historical sign marking the site where Forrest died

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