Tennessee

  • Andrew Jackson was elected as Tennessee's first congressman

  • Tennessee was founded

    Tennessee was the sixteenth state added to the US
  • Nashville was founded

  • Andrew Jackson dies

  • Pres. Lincoln makes Andrew Johnson military governor of Tennessee

  • Grant launch major assault on Tennessee

  • Tennessee was evacuated by federals

  • Federal troops reconquered Cumberland Cap, Tennessee

  • Grant arrived in Chattanooga, Tenn., to find the Union Army was starving

  • The confederate siege of Chattanooga began