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County: Fulton

Railroad Wrecked 1862

Marker Number: 

652

Location: 

Jordan, KY 116/239

Brig. General N. B. Forrest's troops took Union City, Tenn., and moved thru here into Kentucky. They wrecked rails, bridges, trestles north to Moscow, December 24-25, 1862, preventing use of tracks between Columbus, Ky. and Jackson, Tennessee, until after the war. Union army forced to ship supplies by river. Gen. Grant's Vicksburg campaign seriously delayed.

Originally installed in 1964.

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