Tag: Johnsonville TN

Wikipedia says: New Johnsonville is a city in Humphreys County, Tennessee, United States. The history of New Johnsonville is rooted in the town of Johnsonville, which was once situated on the Tennessee River about 3 miles (5 km) downstream. Johnsonville, named for Andrew Johnson, was most notably the site of the Battle of Johnsonville during the Civil War.

The Battle of Johnsonville was fought November 4–5, 1864, in Benton County, Tennessee and Humphreys County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. Confederate cavalry commander Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest culminated a 23-day raid through western Tennessee by attacking the Union supply base at Johnsonville. Forrest’s attack destroyed numerous boats in the Tennessee River and millions of dollars of supplies, disrupting the logistical operations of Union Major General George H. Thomas in Nashville. As a result, Thomas’s army was hampered in its (eventually successful) plan to defeat Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s invasion of Tennessee, the Franklin-Nashville Campaign.