The August 31st WHNT News reported that the University of Tennessee has announced that it will preserve a section of a Civil War site discovered as crews began building parking and roads for a new sorority row.
They found Confederate gun emplacements and trenches over the 21 acre site between Neyland Drive, Kingston Pike, and Alcoa Highway where 13 new sorority houses are going to be built.
These date from the failed Confederate siege of Knoxville November 18 through December 4, 1863 and Battle of Fort Sanders November 29, 1863. Ruts from cannon wheels, friction primers and belt buckles were found.
A sixty feet stretch will be preserved. That is not much, but better than none at all. I'll take it.
Better Some, Than None. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
