Historic Knoxville News #8: Veterans. The Old Soldiers are here.

For three days in October of 1890, Knoxville hosted an enormous reunion of Confederate and Union soldiers near the site of Fort Sanders. The visitors nearly doubled the city's population, and they all needed places to sleep, and food. How did Knoxville step up to the challenge? What did the veterans do at the reunion?

Download the podcast here. The transcript is here.

Here's a photograph of some Union soldiers from the McClung Digital Collection that was probably taken sometime in the 1880s.

Here's a brief explanation of the battle of Knoxville from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.

Click here to find more library resources on the battle at Fort Sanders.

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