BONPS INAUGURATES BATTLEFIELD TOURS

In conjunction with the Civil War Sesquicentennial, and in association with Nashville battle historian Ross Massey, BONPS is now offering personal tours of the battlefield and other Nashville Civil War sites.  For the first time in many years, visitors to Nashville now can get a first-hand, up-close and personal view and explanation of the important terrain and structures where the two-day Battle of Nashville was fought in 1864. 

For details, click on the “Battlefield Tours” link and make plans to walk on the ground where so many fought to the death and where the history of the Civil War changed dramatically.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012 

Sam Watkins Descendant to Speak on Co. Aytch 

One of the best-known memoirs of an infantry soldier in the Civil War is Co. Aytch, written by Sam Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, following his four years in the First Tennessee Infantry, Company H.  This Saturday, January 28, from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., one of his descendants, Ms. Ruth Hill McAllister, will speak at The Civil War Book Club at the Belle Meade Plantation as part of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War. Co. Aytch is this month’s book selection and will be discussed by Ms. McAllister,  Sam Watkins’s great-granddaughter.  Club membership is free.   For information,  contact  Andy Blair, Education Programs Coordinator at the Plantation, by email at andy.blair@bellemeadeplantation.com, or phone at (615) 347-3751.

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE AND BONPS FEATURED IN NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN

The Saturday, January 7, 2012 edition of The Tennessean ran a story on the Battle of Nashville by Writer/Reporter Nicole Young and photojournalist Samuel Simpkins.  The story discusses efforts by The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society to protect the rapidly-disappearing remnants of the Battlefield, including its effort to preserve a one-acre tract involved in the high-casualty conflict at Peach Orchard Hill.  Click the following link to read the story and watch the accompanying video:

Tennessean’s Battle of Nashville Article