Nashville
Depot, Nashville, Tennessee.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Years
- 1862-1865
NASHVILLE SUPPLY BASE
Nashville fell to Union troops in February 1862 and stayed occupied. It was headquarters of the U.S. Military Railroads Division of the Mississippi, the rail destination for supplies landed at Johnsonville, and a base for supplying Sherman's 1864 campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
Then
Nashville fell to Union troops in February 1862 and stayed occupied. It was the headquarters of the U.S. Military Railroads Division of the Mississippi, the rail destination for supplies landed at Johnsonville, and a base for supplying Sherman's 1864 campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
Now
Lines owned by CSX and smaller railroads run through Nashville today.
Served by
Nearby
- 0 miNashville depot and saltpetre refineryConfederate · Depot, Nashville, Tennessee
- 0 miNashville falls and becomes a Union supply baseFebruary 1862, Nashville, Tennessee
- 5 miConfederate batteries close the Cumberland below NashvilleDecember 2, 1864, Bell's Bend, Cumberland River, Tennessee
- 19 miSycamore Powder MillConfederate · Powder works, near Ashland City, Tennessee
- 29 miFortress RosecransUnion · Supply base, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- 30 miForrest raids the Union supply centre at MurfreesboroJuly 13, 1862, Murfreesboro, Tennessee