| Photos this page courtesy of Matt Hering, Memphis, TN and Mike O'Neal, MS | ||
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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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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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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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These cobblestones mark the site where most of the
Memphis cotton trading took place, before, during, and after the war.
The cobblestones are original |
