TENNESSEE

US CIVIL War Battlefields in Tennessee

US CIVIL War Battlefields in Tennessee

Introduction

Study of military and battlefield sites may serve as an important tool for behavior analysis and cultural expression status in American society. Since military installations are easily determined archaeologically, and, as a rule, is relatively compact social, cultural, and physical units, they are ideal for intensive surveys and excavations. Archaeological analysis of the military facilities can also offer unique perspectives on the behavioral aspects of cultures in conflict.

Military installations, in particular, forts and fortifications, has long been of interest to North American archaeologists. “There are many sites published detailed reports on the results of research on these U.S. military facilities. Studies are often conducted as an auxiliary research for conservation, restoration, reconstruction, or interpretation of the efforts of local, state or national agencies. Recently, another type of military site on the battlefield became the subject of archaeological research.” (Sutherland, 2005)

How about archaeologists, every time we walk through the battlefield, or dig the musket ball from the holy land, we ask ourselves: What she would have to stand and fight this battle? Fortunately for us, we were never intended to take part in hostilities and the experience of fighting and dying in battle is unknown to us.

Despite this obvious realization, which is always accompanied by a sigh of relief, we believe that the battlefield archeology brings us as close as possible to the time the last fight, as it can get without a time machine. To hold a gun the ball on the battlefield in Sanders, and think that it may well have passed through the human body and killed him stone dead, it is quite an experience in itself. So there may be a soldier fighting were both on the battlefield, we spent 12 months of investigation?

Civil War in Tennessee

“The tale of Tennessee war is one about divided loyalties, decisive battles, and the widespread destruction faced during the war”. (Sutherland, 2005) People across the state were completely immersed in the economic, social and physical consequences of the conflict, exposure to violence and terror had become inevetable fate of everyday life, disease and malnutrition, grief and loss, and military rule from both sides. History of the Underground Railroad and emancipation is to reveal the other side of the war focusing heroic fight for freedom and citizenship. Many of the grim reminders of war and hope symbols of heroism and kindness stand today, stand as a testament to how war transforms Tennessee. The main focus of the report is to provide insight in the daily life of soldier fighting in the Sanders and Morgan Hill Battlefields during American Civil War.

Largely American Civil War was fought in cities and farms of Tennessee, only Virginia saw more battles. Tennessee was the last Southern states to announce exit from the Union, but saw more than its share of the destruction of years of warring armies criss-crossing the state. The rivers were key arteries of the Deep South, and from the first days of the war, ...