Turn Right at the fork (still on Puryears Bend Road), 2 milesħ. Turn Left (still on Puryears Bend Road), 1.5 milesĤ. Turn Right on Puryears Bend Road, 1 mileģ. Note: Please respect private property along the tour route, as most of these stops are at private residences or farms.Ģ. We hope you enjoy your tour through Hartsville, Tennessee. This driving tour includes buildings and homes used as hospitals, sites where Morgan quartered nearly 2,000 prisoners after the 75-minute battle, river crossings, rendezvous points, and a cemetery. In fact, the Battle of Hartsville attracted the attention of President Abraham Lincoln, who sent a telegram to the commanding senior general stationed in Nashville asking, “Who was responsible for the disaster at Hartsville?” Due to the success of this battle, Confederate Colonel John Hunt Morgan, known as “the Thunderbolt of the Confederacy,” received his commission to brigadier general.
While the number of troops engaged in this battle was comparatively small, the Confederate victory was so complete and decisive in military tactic that news of the battle was reported across the country by nearly 70 newspapers.
Welcome to Hartsville, Tennessee, the location of what many have called the ‘most successfully executed cavalry raid of the war between the states,’- The Battle of Hartsville.
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