• Stop 11 - Union Camp Site

  • Dec 8 2020
  • Length: 1 min
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Stop 11 - Union Camp Site

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  • This is the site of the Union troop’s camp. The Union garrison of the 39th Brigade, 12th Division, under the command of Col. Joseph R. Scott, arrived here from Tompkinsville, Kentucky via the Goose Creek Valley on November 28, 1862, to relieve Col. John Marshall Harlan. Harlan, who later became an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, of the 10th Kentucky Infantry, commanding the Second Brigade, 1st Division, had been in Hartsville about two weeks.

    Col. Scott’s forces consisted of the 104th Illinois Infantry, 106th and 108th Ohio Infantry, 2nd Indiana Cavalry, Co. E. 11th Calvary, totaling 2,400 men.

    On December 2, Col. Absalom B. Moore of the 104th Illinois, and ranking officer, was directed by the federal commander to relieve Col. Scott who had been called to Nashville. Here at the Union camp site a large part of the fighting and surrender of the Union garrison took place, just seventy-five minutes after the battle began.

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