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The Army of Tennessee was the principal Confederate army operating between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. Named for the State of Tennessee, It was formed in the same state in late 1862 and fought until the end of the war in 1865, participating in most of the significant battles in the Western ...
Bushrod Rust Johnson (October 7, 1817 – September 12, 1880) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War and an officer in the United States Army.As a university professor he had been active in the state militias of Kentucky and Tennessee and on the outbreak of hostilities he sided with the South, despite having been born in the North in a family of abolitionist Quakers.
Tullahoma campaign. The Tullahoma campaign (or Middle Tennessee campaign) was a military operation conducted from June 24 to July 3, 1863, by the Union Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans, and is regarded as one of the most brilliant maneuvers of the American Civil War. Its effect was to drive the Confederates out of Middle ...
1328579 [6] Website. www .johnsoncitytn .org. Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, mostly in Washington County. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 71,046, making it the eighth largest city in Tennessee. [7] Johnson City is the principal city of the Johnson City ...
July 9, 1933. Vernon, Alabama, U.S. Died. September 29, 2023. (2023-09-29) (aged 90) Joseph Edwin Johnson (July 9, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American academic. He served as the president of University of Tennessee system from 1991 to 1999. He was an alumnus of Birmingham–Southern College and the University of Tennessee.
Joseph Alexander Cooper. Joseph Alexander Cooper (November 25, 1823 – May 20, 1910) was an American farmer, soldier, and civil servant. A Southern Unionist, he fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, commanding units at Mill Springs, Stones River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, Bentonville, and in the Knoxville and Atlanta ...
Bryan Coker, 12th President of Maryville College. Margaret Cuninggim, former Dean of Women at the University of Tennessee. David L. Eubanks, former President of Johnson Bible College. John Gaventa, political sociologist. Lee Giles, computer scientist, CiteSeer, David Reese Professor at the Pennsylvania State University.
Clean up around Johnson City on Friday moved as quickly as Thursday's storm, mainly because of the possibility of more rain this weekend. City officials spent the day doing a damage assessment to ...
The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River.A 2005 study of the army states that it "was present at most of the great battles that became turning points of the war—Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, and Atlanta" and "won the decisive battles in the decisive theater of the war."
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the U.S. Senate. The law was enacted March 2, 1867, over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. It purported to deny the president the power to ...