Fortress Nashville: Pioneers, Engineers, Mechanics, Contrabands & U.S. Colored Troops tells the story of how the heavily fortified logistics and transportation hub became the key to victory in the Western Theater. A unique fort of star-bastion design, Fort Negley became the symbol of hope for enslaved persons as it provided protection, opportunity, and freedom. As the war progressed, African-American men became laborers and then soldiers for the Federal Army, which transformed pro-Confederate Nashville into a massive military base. The book explores every facet of the Federal infrastructure built in Nashville and Middle Tennessee so that armies under Grant, Thomas, and Sherman could capture Chattanooga and Atlanta and march to the sea. Topics explored include the Pioneer Brigade, the First Michigan Engineers, U.S. Military Railroads, fortification technology and design, military hospitals, army depots and garrison towns, the Confederate river forts and fortifications associated with the epic Battle of Nashville. A 40-page section explores the building and design of Fort Negley, an iconic stone fortress that survived periods of neglect only to become one of the major Civil War and Civil Rights attractions of the South. Featured are literally hundreds of maps and photos, blueprints of forts, charts and graphs, including 14 original artworks by artists such as Philip Duer, David Meagher, John Paul Strain, Andy Thomas, and Rick Reeves. The book also includes descriptions of pioneer forts, a glossary of fortification terminology, and full texts of Federal wartime reports regarding the fortifications.

Fortress Nashville: Pioneers, Engineers, Mechanics, Contrabands & U.S. Colored Troops

History

Zimmerman, Mark

Americas

Zimco Publications LLC

Guide to Civil War Nashville (2nd Edition) takes you on a 50-mile tour of 25 historical sites defining the Battle of Nashville and the Union occupation of Tennessee’s capital. Illustrated with modern and wartime photographs, touring and battle maps, and diagrams, the guide also explores the plight of citizens living under the gun and the wartime role of Nashville. Also included are the tour map, precise driving directions with GPS coordinates, historical-marker text and locations, illustrated orders of battle, Medal of Honor recipients, and information about other Middle Tennessee sites. All of the sites on the tour include original photographs.In addition to a timeline and map of military operations, the book covers the fall of the river forts and the capture of Nashville by Union forces in February 1862, prompting the Great Panic. The role of the river transports and the military railroad system is thoroughly explored, along with the controversies of Federal occupation. A map of Nashville in 1864 shows the city’s infrastructure. The pride of the Federal engineers is Fort Negley, a tourism site which interprets the ruins of the largest stone fortification built during the war.Three historic cemeteries are explored, complete with maps of burial sites. Three antebellum plantation mansions (Belmont, Travellers Rest, and Belle Meade) are now renovated and open to the public in all their splendor. Also examined at the Tennessee State Capitol complex (built right before the war) and the magnificent newly built Tennessee State Museum. Many of the city’s structures, including four extant churches on the tour, were used as military hospitals during the fighting.A lengthy article explores the decisive 1864 Battle of Nashville, the last major military activity in the Western Theater. Another article explores the skirmish on the Cumberland River prior to the main battle, between Federal gunboats and the Confederate cavalry. Four detailed maps, designed in coordination with the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, illustrate the troop movements both days of the battle. There is no preserved battlefield today, urban development has obliverated most of it. However, the tour includes a dozen battle sites, including the famous Shy’s Hill (known as Compton’s Hill at the time).The first edition of Guide to Civil War Nashville was published in 2004 under the auspices of the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society.

Guide to Civil War Nashville

Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, offers a treasure trove of fascinating historic sites to explore. In the process you will learn the stories of our ancestors, the journeys they undertook, and the trials and tribulations they encountered. Along the way you will explore museums of all types, historic buildings and significant architecture, antebellum mansions, monuments and memorials, sculptures and public art, battlefields, artifacts, and markers.God, Guns, Guitars & Whiskey (which features 265 photographs and 17 maps) begins with a walking tour of historic downtown Nashville that spotlights more than 70 sites. The tour will take you from the historic riverfront to the centers of municipal and state government, along Church Street with its eclectic architecture, down the Victorian-era warehouse row, and then up Broadway, home to many of Nashville’s music venues—from symphony halls to honky tonks. This section also includes feature articles on the Tennessee State Capitol and Ryman Auditorium and a listing of Native-American historic sites.The next section covers nearly 100 historic sites of Nashville-Davidson County outside the downtown area and includes a feature article on the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and a listing of African-American historic sites. Descriptions and articles include Centennial Park, Music Row, Vanderbilt University and other West End attractions; the North Nashville and Germantown historic districts; the College Hill and South Nashville districts; several Civil War sites; and historic Edgefield and East Nashville.The final section contains the text and locations of 240 historical markers in Nashville-Davidson County.

God, Guns, Guitars and Whiskey: An Illustrated Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee

An illustrated guide to the gravesites of the famous personages in Nashville history, Including two US Presidents, pioneers, war heroes, and country music stars.

Gone Under: Historic Cemeteries of Nashville, Tennessee

Gunboats versus cavalry? Preposterous! Not so fast. This unique form of Civil War combat is covered extensively for the first time in Iron Maidens and the Devil's Daughters. Through the use of period photographs and more than a dozen original battle maps, the author details the clashes between Federal gunboats, including ironclads, and Confederate cavalry on the twin rivers of invasion into the heartland. Explore the US river gunboat flotilla (its creation, its commanders, its vessels) and subsequent joint navy-army invasion of Middle Tennessee up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Chapters cover the naval battles at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and the remarkable and daring Phelps Raid; the capture of Clarksville and Nashville; the little-known first battle of Shiloh; the strange Duck River Affair; Federal counterinsurgency measures; convoy operations; and the brilliant raids of 1864 by Nathan Bedford Forrest, including Eastport, Paris Landing, Reynoldsburg Island, Johnsonville, and Bell's Bend. The 176-page paperback features artwork by John Paul Strain and Andy Thomas, and a special section devoted to the USS Cairo ironclad gunboat. Especially noteworthy are the building and operations of the river fleet--timberclads, ironclads, tinclads, and river monitors. From the groundwork laid by Rodgers and Eads, to the amphibious operations of Grant and Foote, the raids by Phelps, the tinclad mosquito fleet of Fitch, to the Confederate warfare waged by Forrest, Kelley, and Wheeler, and the guerilla operations of McCann, Woodward, and Hinson, Iron Maidens and the Devil's Daughters explores these little-known fierce battles and skirmishes between Federal naval forces and the pride of Southern mounted infantry.

Iron Maidens and the Devil's Daughters: US Navy Gunboats versus Confederate Gunners and Cavalry on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, 1861-65

Product Description Mud, Blood & Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864 takes a fresh look, for the first time with campaign and battle maps, at the unprecedented and brutal pursuit of the Army of Tennessee by Federal troops following the decisive Battle of Nashville. The non-stop action begins at Compton’s Hill and surges 120 miles in ten days over rugged terrain and in horrendous winter conditions to the final showdown between Wilson’s blueclad troopers and Forrest’s stubborn rearguard. This thrilling tale, written by historian Mark Zimmerman, author of Guide to Civil War Nashville, is told largely in the words of the participants themselves and draws from the research and opinions of other historians and authors. Well-organized chapters help explain the complicated flow of events as they happened. The 184-page book, which includes a foreword by James D. Kay, Jr., features 16 original maps, including eight battle maps, orders of battle, major characters, timeline, and bibliography. The combat includes The Battle at the Barricade, Hollow Tree Gap, West Harpeth, Richland Creek, Anthony’s Hill, and Sugar Creek. The book is meant to be a “detailed overview” of the campaign, accessible to Civil War scholars and general audiences alike. "Mark Zimmerman has been able to compile a concise overview of all the action, which is a very difficult task." James D. Kay Jr., President, Battle of Nashville Trust, Inc. Review "Mark Zimmerman has been able to compile a concise overview of all the action, which is a very difficult task." James D. Kay Jr., President, Battle of Nashville Trust, Inc.

Mud, Blood and Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864

Unsteady grasp of US history? Never read the Declaration of Independence nor the US Constitution? How to properly display the US flag? Who were those guys who served as Presidents? Who's lain in state at the US Capitol? The costliest wars? Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, the new book by Mark Zimmerman, provides all the information any US Citizen needs to know and should know in one handy reference guide. Up front are the essential documents of the United States of America--the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, with wording straight from the National Archives. The history of the United States is laid out in concise, readable form. Articles detail the history of the Declaration, the Constitution, and the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. And there is much, much more--US flag guidelines, state-by-state data, details of the Presidents and presidential elections, our military heroes, the space program, battlefields, minor wars and old forts, engineering marvels and historic sites. And last but not least, listings of all the major sports champions of the past century. The new handy reference guidebook by Zimco Publications LLC is a publication that every US citizen (and prospective citizen) should own and read. History is anything but boring--it's the story of our lives.

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Our Founding Documents & Concise History of the USA

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