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Blue Springs Encampments and Fortifications

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Built
  
1863 (1863)

Opened
  
1863

Added to NRHP
  
16 April 1999

NRHP Reference #
  
99000427

Area
  
2.76 kmĀ²

Location
  
Address Restricted, Cleveland, Tennessee

MPS
  
Civil War Historic and Historic Archeological Resources in Tennessee MPS

Blue Springs Encampments and Fortifications is the site of a Civil War military encampment in Bradley County, Tennessee. Union Army forces commanded by General William Tecumseh Sherman camped at this location between October 1863 and April 1865. Entrenchments built on the crests of ridges overlooking the camps are still visible on the site. Stone reinforcements are present in some sections of the entrenchments.

The property, which is now forest and farmland, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Blue Springs Encampments and Fortifications Wikipedia