Longstreet Encampment

Longstreet Encampment is a Tennessee historical marker in Encampment Sweetwater, Monroe County.

Monroe Co, on South High St.,Encampment Sweetwater

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In mid to late 1863, Sweetwater was a supply and staging area for the Confederacy. It was the last secure depot on the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, South of the Union lines. In November 1863, General Longstreet, with 15, 000 men, camped here for 4 days to provision, prior to his siege of Knoxville in early December 1863.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (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)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Loudon, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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