Confederate batteries close the Cumberland below Nashville
December 2, 1864, Bell's Bend, Cumberland River, Tennessee.
- Date
- December 2, 1864
- Where
- Bell's Bend, Cumberland River, Tennessee
- What happened
- Cut
- Event
- 140 of 174
Hood's batteries at Bell's Bend captured two Union transports carrying horses, mules and fodder on the day they opened. The ironclads Carondelet and Neosho could not silence them, and the river below Nashville stayed closed to supply traffic until Union cavalry drove the guns off on December 15.
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