Nashville falls and becomes a Union supply base
February 1862, Nashville, Tennessee.
- Date
- February 1862
- Where
- Nashville, Tennessee
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 21 of 174
At the end of February, Nashville became the first Confederate state capital to fall to Union troops, under Don Carlos Buell. Retreating troops destroyed the bridges across the Cumberland River before they left. The city became a major Union military base, its depots, warehouses and hospitals drawing workers and refugees through the war.
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