The victory secured Union control of the Cumberland River and caused the evacuation o Clarksville, Nashville and most of Middle Tennessee. Tour begins at the visitor center, which includes a museum. Admission is free. The house is the only original surrender structure remaining from the Civil War. Open June-Sept., daily.
Admission is free.
Authentically furnished houses and barns, along with demonstrations of daily chores, bring to life a typical Civil War soldier's boyhood. In the Civil War, the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers were a gateway to Nashville and the all-important railroads that fed the Confederacy its troops and supplies. Homeplace 1850 considers the impact the war had on the yeoman farmers of Tennessee. The Capitol was completed in 1859. Nashville became an occupied city in 1862 and remained so for the rest of the war.