Another photo from my recent trip to Lebanon Tennessee. Didn't get to visit as many of the historical sites that I would have liked. Maybe next time.
Historical Marker Lebanon Tennessee. Erected by Tennessee Historical Commission.
Near dawn on May 5, 1862, Colonel John Hunt Morgan's 800 Confederate Cavalry camped around the Public Square and at Cumberland University on South College Street, were attacked by General Ebenezer Dumont's Federal Cavalry of 600 as they advanced from Murfreesboro in a torrential rain. After an hour and a half of charges and countercharges, Morgan and most of his men withdrew eastward on the Rome and Trousdale Ferry Pikes pursued by the Federals. Barricaded in Odd Fellows Hall on West Main Street, 60 to 70 of Morgan's men fired upon the Federals. Later these Confederates surrendered when Dumont threatened to burn the town. During the attack, the Federal loses amounted to 10 killed, 21 wounded, and 5 missing. The Confederate losses amounted to 60 killed and an unknown number of wounded and missing.
I like history more now than I did "back when" I was in school and it was required. History is not all good but it is still history. The good and the bad. Like, I still do some family history searches and find out some things I didn't expect. Most good some not. Some interesting some not. But all history which means it the past. I live in the present but at the same time what those that have come before me has had some effect on my present. I still have choices to make and hopefully the choices I make today will have a positive and not a negative effect on those that come after me. Thanks for reading my posts.