Battery Wiltsie

Battery Wiltsie is a Tennessee historical marker in Knoxville, Knox County.

On Vine Ave., between Market & Walnut Streets, Knoxville

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A large Federal earthwork was located back of Vine Avenue between Gay and Walnut Streets when Gen. James Longstreet besieged Knoxville, Nov. 17 - Dec. 4, 1863. The Federal defense line ran along this ridge from Fort Hill, (Surrey Street and Saxton Avenue) 2400 yards east, to Fort Sanders, (17th street and Laurel Avenue) 1400 yards west. Ten forts crowned these heights, five east and four west of this point.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Knoxville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Marker text and location from the Tennessee Historical Commission, as the Commission publishes them on its marker map.

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