The present-day Confederate Memorial Hall museum in Knoxville, built in 1854, was Confederate General James Longstreet's headquarters during the siege of Knoxville. A sharpshooter, perched in the building's tower, fatally wounded Gen. William P. Sanders, who was leading a Union assault. The house still has cannon balls embedded in its walls, and blood-stained stairs lead up to the tower, where a Confederate artist drew pencil sketches of other soldiers on the plaster walls. Recommended Links Please e-mail any sites that directly relate to Knox County you feel should be added. Includes both Union and Confederate accounts.
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