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Clarksville, Tennessee

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Clarksville

Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, and the fifth-largest city in the state behind Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, respectively. The city had a population of 132,957 at the 2010 census, and an estimated population of 146,806 in 2014.

The city was incorporated in 1785 as Tennessee's first incorporated city, and named for General George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter and American Revolution hero, and brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Clarksville in Southern Victory[]

At the beginning of the Great War, U.S. monitors pushed up the Cumberland River and so the Confederates dropped two railroad bridges at Clarksville to bloke the way. In 1916, the USS Punishment steamed up to lend artillery support to the the Army engineers clearing the wreckage. The Confederates would lob shells from their three-inch field guns at the work site and monitors would respond. This one-sided exchange would quickly end until the Confederates would bring up more guns.[1]

The Punishment did dropped anchor in the Cumberland River, near Clarksville, so its crew could have some R&R. While George Enos, Stanley, Albert, and Grover rotated off the ship, a Confederate shell attack destroyed the Punishment, sinking it and killing the entire crew. The four sailors who went ashore were unscathed and the monitor's only survivors.[2]

References[]

  1. ↑ Walk in Hell, pgs. 168-170, HC.
  2. ↑ Ibid, pgs. 300-303.
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