The 13th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Strawberry Plains, Gallatin and Nashville, Tennessee and mustered in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel John K. Miller.
Then marched overland to Des Arc where the army was transported by steamboat to Memphis in an attempt to unite the Army of the West with the Confederate Army of Mississippi to attack Grant at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but arrived too late for the Battle of Shiloh.
It was camped north of Collierville, Tennessee, when General Chalmers(CSA) attacked the garrison with 2,500 troops on 11 October 1863.
Henley qualifies for Wales (as his mother is Welsh), England (under residency rules) and the United States, as he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
After graduating from Penn, Journeay had a career in banking in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In truth at the time of the applicable setting there was in Memphis no normal school which enrolled black students; Simon actually went to Lane College, a black school in Jackson, Tennessee, where he met and began to court Bertha George Palmer, from Henning, Tennessee.
Steele was introduced to science fiction fandom in his last years of high school at Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, attending meetings of Nashville's science fiction club and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Landers was first noticed with a country song that she wrote and performed at the age of twelve, which led to a Nashville recording contract with Epic Records, a performance on The Merv Griffin Show, and a year-long role on the daytime drama, The Secret Storm.
Much more recently it was included as a track on the Memphis Jazz Box in 2004 as tribute to Handy's impact on the legacy of Memphis and American music.
The music video for "Better Get to Livin'" is set in a carnival, filmed on location at a farm in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
While waiting for his application to be approved, he moved to Shelbyville, Tennessee and served as morning host and sales manager, but decided he would be better off working for someone else rather than being his own boss.
Amos and Gale Binkley were born in Cheatham County, Tennessee, and were working as jewelry repairmen when they started playing for WSM in 1926.
Braden, Union County, Tennessee, unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States
Brooke Annibale (born July 1987) is an American singer/songwriter and musician, originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, and based in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.
He spent two years in the U.S. at the nuclear research center of Oak Ridge in the 1980s with his wife and two little girls.
Aged 16, she moved to Jefferson City, Tennessee on a soccer scholarship and scored six goals for the Lady Eagles.
On November 30, 2005, Haymond died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound outside his home in Auburntown, Tennessee.
Although Crawford died shortly thereafter, his sons continued his work, and managed to extend the tracks to Monterey, at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.
John Baird had also been involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and the Cairo bridge in Memphis, and had been employed by the McCann Construction Company, the Keystone Bridge Company and American Bridge Company.
Curt Cobb (born December 28, 1971) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 62nd district, which encompasses Bedford County and parts of Lincoln County and Rutherford County.
His and his friends' interest in music led to a move to Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1960s.
David George Haskell is an American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.
He started his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ/560 in Memphis, and was the city's leading radio personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his "Red, Hot & Blue" show on radio and television.
Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.
Her Senate District 26 encompasses the counties of Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and Wayne in the western part of the state.
Jackson was elected to a full term in November 2002 by a larger margin over his Republican opponent, retired Humphreys County educator Jim Brasfield, than he had won over Butler two years previously.
She was bought for $250 by William S. Barnes, who sent her to Memphis in early 1901 to be trained.
One of his largest statues was a Memorial to honor his son Ernest Wickham and other local soldiers of Montgomery County, Tennessee who died in World War II.
She remained at Okolona until 1963, when she accepted a position at Howard High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she taught the academic year 1963-64.
He was survived by his daughters and sons-in-law Wilmagene and Lewis Noonan of Leawood, Kansas and Susan and Mark Parsons of Ashbourne, Derbyshire in the U.K.; by a daughter, Gretchen Frank Beal of Knoxville, Tennessee, and son and daughter-in-law, Thomas E. Frank and Gail O'Day of Atlanta.
Fantastic Sams was founded in 1974 by Sam Ross in Memphis, Tennessee.
One of the largest landowners in west Tennessee, Marr moved from Clarksville to Obion County in 1821.
Soon after the Chickasaw Cession, the first log cabin in what was to become Gibson County had been built by Thomas Fite about eight miles (13 km) east of present day Trenton.
After Jackson's death in 1840, Glencoe was sent to stand in Nashville, Tennessee, for a fee of $50.
After Chattanooga, Granger took part in lifting the siege at Knoxville, Tennessee.
Both of the bill's sponsors represent Cumberland County, the location of retirement communities including Fairfield Glade and Lake Tansi.
While a woman was a finalist for the position, which would have resulted in the first female Bishop, ultimately the election was won by R. Stewart Wood Jr., rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was the fifth head college football coach for the Tennessee State University Tigers located in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for the 1928 season.
Gross moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1986 and signed a publishing deal with Pic-A-Lic Music, a company owned by Roger Cook and Ralph Murphy.
It was a successor to the failed Marathon Motor Works of Nashville, Tennessee, and operated with some of the same personnel and equipment.
Born in Martin, Tennessee, Holland McCombs became a correspondent for TIME magazine in 1935, and later bureau chief for TIME and LIFE magazine in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Dallas.
In Kentucky, 3985 was decided to host the annual CSX Clinchfield Santa Train which runs over the former Clinchfield Railroad between Elkhorn City, Kentucky and Kingsport, Tennessee.
McDonald was born May 1, 1895, in Craig, Nebraska, the son of John S. McDonald and Amanda B. Hildreth, both of Jamestown, Tennessee.
Based in Jackson, Tennessee, they were the first team from that city since 1911.
Born in Scotts Hill, Tennessee, Todd received a B.S. from Lambuth College in 1965, a Master of Combined Sciences from the University of Mississippi in 1968, and a J.D. from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1972.
Bowling has been a public official and community activist in her home town of Tullahoma, Tennessee.
After high school, Bare moved to Cleveland, Tennessee to attend the Lee University, where he was a vocal performance major and a member of The Lee Singers performance group.
John Hervey Crozier (February 10, 1812 – October 25, 1889) was an American attorney and politician active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, during the mid-nineteenth century.
Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.
Dannenberg retired from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1973 and became an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
Kyle Downes (born March 18, 1983 in Summertown, Tennessee) is a Canadian-American actor, best known for his recurring role as Larry Tudgeman in the Disney Channel Original Series Lizzie McGuire and his characterization of Ezra Friedken in Higher Ground.
Linda St. Clair was born in Franklin, Tennessee and spent most of her childhood on a small farm in College Grove, Tennessee as one of four children of Sarah and Alvin White.
Lon Thomas Williams (March 17, 1890 - June 1978) was an American western author, teacher, and lawyer who lived in Andersonville, Tennessee, United States.
He is currently the head coach at Ooltewah High School in Ooltewah, Tennessee.
Marshall County was created in 1836 from parts of Giles, Bedford, Lincoln and Maury counties, and was named after the American jurist, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mary Carol Winkler (nee Mary Carol Freeman on December 10, 1973) is an American woman who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee.
Born in Ravenscroft in 1925, he worked in the nurseries of McMinnville, hoeing bulbs as a teenager for $.10 per hour.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange is located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, USA, on the corner of Front Street and Union Avenue.
Merve Terzioğlu (24 February 1987 in Istanbul, Turkey-7 April 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.) was a Turkish female swimmer in the sports club Galatasaray the latest and before that (2002-2006) in Fenerbahçe, both teams in leading positions nationally in Turkey.
Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.
Stout, aged 20 at his death, was buried in Virtue Cemetery, Concord, Tennessee.
The Music City Center is a convention complex located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Outside of Davidson County, MTA collaborates with the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to provide express service to Brentwood, Franklin, Gallatin, Hendersonville, Lavergne, Smyrna, Murfreesboro, Spring Hill, Joelton and Springfield.
(or NBCA) is an African-American Baptist body organized in 1915 as the result of a struggle to keep the National Baptist Publishing Board of Nashville independent.
At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.
It was inaugurated in 1975 with two meetings (Nashville and Chicago) of 130 biblical scholars, pastors, and theologians.
It is associated with the Churches of Christ, and its sponsoring congregation is the Rivergate Church of Christ in Madison, Tennessee.
Oliver Springs High School (OSHS) is the Roane County high school operated by Roane County Schools that serves the city of Oliver Springs, Tennessee.
Episode Two, titled "Pigeon Idol," was shot at Fiddler's Roost in Parrottsville, Tennessee on June 15, 2008, where the celebs judged a talent contest hosted by Ross Mathews from The Tonight Show.
The 354th FIS remained at Oxnard until 1955 when it was reassigned to McGhee Tyson Airport/McGhee Tyson AFB, near Knoxville, Tennessee to provide air defense for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Phil was a 1980 graduate of Gibbs High School in Corryton, Tennessee.
The President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library located on the campus of Tusculum College in Tusculum, Tennessee, (Greeneville postal address), is the Presidential Library and Museum for Andrew Johnson.
Portions of the video were shot at Robinson Stadium, and the high school football field in Watertown, Tennessee.
Rocky Mount, Tennessee, historic first capital of the Southwest Territory
The first Saturn to leave the assembly line in the Spring Hill, Tennessee factory was on July 30, 1990, the same day that then-CEO of GM, Roger Bonham Smith, retired.
Not long after, she took the very last train from St. Louis to the Union Train Station in Nashville, Tennessee.
Several American cities have been named after Smyrna, including Smyrna, Georgia; Smyrna, Tennessee; Smyrna, Delaware and New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Originally from Roan Mountain, Tennessee, Smith served as a head coach for twenty-two seasons.
Steve McManus is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 10th district, encompassing Cordova and part of Shelby County.
As the character based on Bob Gaudio explains in the musical Jersey Boys, "I'm watching the million dollar movie. Some cheesy John Payne western. He hauls off and smacks Rhonda Fleming across the mouth and says, 'What do you think of that?' She looks up at him defiant, proud, eyes glistening - and she says, 'Big girls don't cry.'"
The Americana Folk Festival (AFF) is a grassroots art and music event held at Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee (right outside Nashville.) The event focuses on folk music as it relates to various genres, particularly jazz, Americana, blues, and rock.
The Crockett Times is a weekly community newspaper serving Crockett County, Tennessee.
Rye was born in Benton County, Tennessee, the son of Wayne Rye, a merchant, and Elizabeth (Atchison) Rye.
In addition there are some episodes featuring trips to Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Memphis, Tennessee.
Tommy Laurendine (born c. 1968) is the head coach of the Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) college football team in Sewanee, Tennessee, and previously served as an offensive coordinator at Washington & Lee, West Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Lenoir–Rhyne and The Citadel.
Born in Blountville, Tennessee, Shipley is a graduate of Sullivan Central High School and also a 1976 graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Chuckey-Doak Middle School and Chuckey-Doak High School are located nearby in Afton also operated by Greene County Public Schools.
The entertainment district along Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, is specially exempt from both Tennessee's statewide open container ban and Memphis's local open container ban, thereby permitting the open consumption of alcoholic beverages on the street.
They had two sons, Voss Whittington Graham (born 1948), a motivational speaker in Cordova, near Memphis, Tennessee, and James E. Graham, Jr., of Dallas, Texas.
In his book The Souls of Black Folk, author W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of the primitive conditions of a black schoolhouse at nearby Alexandria, where he taught class while a student at Fisk University in the 1880s.
WHBQ-FM's main antenna is in Cordova, Tennessee covering the central and northern portions of the Memphis area.
After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.
His father was a merchant who later became a banker in Columbia, Tennessee.
In 1903, when he was about 25, Glenn Terrell earned his law degree, an LL.B., from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee.
However, some parts of Southeastern Missouri could not receive channel 3's signal clearly, presumably because WSIL had to conform it to protect WREC-TV (now WREG-TV) in Memphis, Tennessee in the next market to the south.
There is another Supertalk station also owned by Bristol Broadcasting in the Tri-Cities area of TN / VA.
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Following their marriage, she obtained a job with Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, TN, and the couple moved to Tennessee in 1975.
The Department No. 2 (Western Department) was created on June 25, 1861, under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, and had military jurisdiction and control over parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's Confederates moved from Tennessee in an effort to push from Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky and gain control of the important border state.
During Tennessee's 16-15 loss to eventual national champion Georgia on September 6, 1980, Georgia running back Herschel Walker and Bates met on the 5-yard line in a play that still lives in many college football highlights.
Recently the Tennessee Wig Walk track was featured in a British comedy movie, The Infidel (2010 film) starring British comedian Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff and Matt Lucas.
WKTS, known as "The Bridge", a Christian radio station from Kingston, Tennessee, US
The company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and owned by VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), the world’s largest apparel company.
This campaign led to Zollicoffer's death when he mistakenly crossed into Union lines during a battle near Camp Springs, Kentucky in which the Confederate troops were pushed back into Tennessee.
Many old concrete dams are known to suffer from AAR, including Fontana Dam in Tennessee and Pian Telessio dam in Italy among others.
Carpenter was named for its first postmaster and doctor, Ensley A. Carpenter, who moved to Whitley County shortly after the Civil War from neighboring Claiborne County, Tennessee.
Upper Cumberland Regional Airport serving Sparta, Tennessee, United States (FAA: SRB)
Dave Barnes (born 1978), singer-songwriter from Tennessee, U.S.A.
Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.
Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.
Corridor F, a highway in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky
Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, a former National Historic Landmark that remains listed on the NRHP in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee
The Smiths were members of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church since they joined in 2000, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986.
It is included in the Jackson - Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area.
It was made in partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee and highlights the dangers of driving while distracted, particularly texting and driving.
After a brief expedition to fight Native Americans (Indians) and guerrillas from North Carolina in Cocke County, Tennessee, Colonels Brownlow and Palmer with about one thousand men of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 10th Ohio Cavalry held the army's right wing, watching for arrival of a Confederate force reportedly approaching East Tennessee from North Carolina.
Crompton led Tennessee to an upset win over the unranked and 3-2 Georgia Bulldogs and was named the AT&T National Player of the Week.
Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.
Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, a football stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Additional performances took place at Urban Stages, New York City, and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Once in Memphis, the route turns right onto Millington Road, right onto Carrolton Road, left onto Benjestown Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River.
During fall practice, head coach Jeff Tedford named Longshore the starting quarterback the week leading up to Cal's season opener at Tennessee.
Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.
North Springs, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Tennessee
The NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title defended in the US states of Tennessee and Alabama.
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center - formerly known as "Opryland Hotel", located in Nashville, Tennessee
The lakeshore plays host to two state parks: Tennessee's Pickwick Landing State Park and Mississippi's J P Coleman State Park.
Quonset Hut Studio, an early recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee
The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.
He played Stanley Kowalski in the Guthrie Theater's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, July 3-August 21, 2010 in Minneapolis.
He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.
Ryan A. Haynes (born 1985), member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.
The Sequatchie River drains the valley in Tennessee, flowing south to southwest from the southern part of Cumberland County, Tennessee to the Tennessee River near the Alabama border.
Shelby Forest, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee
John Sevier Highway, is an east to west secondary highway in Knox County, Tennessee, that is 18.1 miles (29.2 km) long.
Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.
Victor S. Johnson, Jr. (1916–2008), lawyer, heir to Aladdin Industries, and civic leader in Nashville, Tennessee
WVTF A National Public Radio affiliate, WVTF provides public radio services via 13 transmitters to much of Virginia and portions of North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
In 1997, songwriter Tom T. Hall immortalized the city in a song titled appropriately, "Watertown, Tennessee".
WAYM, a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music-format FM radio station broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee market
WDEF-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Two future interstates are to travel in West Tennessee: Interstate 69 and Interstate 22.
WOPI-CA, a television station (TV 9) licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee