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DAVIDSON, Tennessee in the 1860s: 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. The End's in Sight in Nashville
    date December 15, 1864 to December 16, 1864map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags War

    Major-General George H. Thomas had done it. In a telegram sent to President Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas described, "The woods, fields and entrenchments are strewn with the enemy's small arms, abandoned in their retreat." Following the overwhelming Union victory at the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864, General John M. Schofield joined the rest of Federal forces...

  2. Blacks vote for the first time in the South
    date August 1, 1867map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    While the process of Reconstruction continued until 1868 for many of the rebel states, Tennessee was readmitted into the United States in 1866. Thus, Tennessee was the only one of the Confederate states not affected by the highly contentious sections of the Reconstruction Acts, which placed the states under military authority. As a consequence, the state would be one of the first to fully understand...