This coming August 29th, there will be a Civil War encampment and ball put on by the Friends of Fort Defiance group. They have been working for years to open an interpretive center at the site, located at the corner of A and Pine streets in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Not many photos of the fort from the Civil War remain, but the site does contain some impressive earthworks remains because it was overlooked for so many years.
No battles were fought there. It was built by the Confederates, but burned and abandoned after the fall of Fort Donelson before Clarksville was captured. It was then recaptured by the Confederates and recaptured by Union forces, who then garrisoned it under the command of Col. Sander D. Bruce and became known as Fort Bruce. It became a haven for escaped slaves.
It overlooks the Cumberland and Red rivers.
The group hopes to have the center opened by 2011, the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the war.
From the Clarksville (TN) Leaf Chronicle.
Little Known, But a Piece of History Nonetheless. Old B-R'er
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
