Paducah supply depot
Supply base, Paducah, Kentucky.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Supply base
- Where
- Paducah, Kentucky
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
PADUCAH SUPPLY DEPOT
Grant occupied Paducah at the mouth of the Tennessee River in September 1861, and for most of the war it was a massive supply depot for Federal forces on the western rivers. Forrest raided it on March 25, 1864, but could not take Fort Anderson.
Then
Grant occupied Paducah at the mouth of the Tennessee River in September 1861 after Confederates seized Columbus, and for most of the war, under Col. Stephen G. Hicks, the town served as a massive supply depot for Federal forces on the Ohio, Mississippi and Tennessee river systems. Fort Anderson on the west side, first a supply depot, was rebuilt as a seven-gun fort with water-filled ditches.
Forrest raided Paducah on March 25, 1864, held the city for ten hours and, by his own report, captured many stores and horses and burned sixty bales of cotton, a steamer and a drydock, but he could not take Fort Anderson. The Union held Paducah to the end of the war.
Now
Built over
Most of the Lower Town neighborhood around Fort Anderson was demolished soon after the battle, and most of its buildings postdate the war.
Lines owned by smaller railroads run through Paducah today.
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