Unionists burn East Tennessee railroad bridges
November 8, 1861, Lick Creek bridge near Mosheim, Tennessee.
- Date
- November 8, 1861
- Where
- Lick Creek bridge near Mosheim, Tennessee
- What happened
- Burned
- Event
- 15 of 174
On the night of November 8, Unionist bands burned five of nine targeted bridges on the line linking Virginia with the Deep South, among them the Lick Creek, Union, Hiwassee and two Chickamauga Creek bridges. The promised Union invasion from Kentucky never came, and every bridge was quickly rebuilt. Confederate authorities hanged five of the Lick Creek bridge burners.
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