Battle of Campbell's Station

Burnside slipped away from Lenoir's Station in the night and ran for Knoxville along the muddy Kingston Road, with Longstreet trying to cut him off at the crossroads. The Union troops arrived first, then fell back through five positions, Roemer's battery holding off attacks. Jenkins's flanking attack failed when Law's brigade moved the wrong way. Longstreet blamed his guides and poor maps, and the account also cites unclear orders that left McLaws and Jenkins each waiting on the other. The National Park Service estimates 400 Union and 570 Confederate casualties.

What the plaque says

Battle of Campbell's Station The Federal Gen. Ambrose Burnside, pursued by Gen. James Longstreet from Lenior's Station via Concord, eluded an attempt by Gen. Lafayette McLaws, CSA., coming from Loudon via the Hotchkiss Valley and Kingston Road, to head him off at the junction of the Concord and Kingston Roads, Nov. 16, 1863, Burnside stood off three attacks and then retired to Knoxville that night.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• American Museum of Science and Energy — 10 mi
  The Oak Ridge museum that opened in 1949, when the Manhattan Project city's gates opened, in a town whose Black workers were housed in the Gamble Valley hutments.
• Blount Mansion — 15 mi
  The 1792 frame house of William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark, where the people he enslaved are named.
• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 15 mi
  The 1935 school in Clinton that sent twelve Black students down Foley Hill to desegregate Clinton High School in August 1956, now a museum with bronze statues of the Clinton 12.
• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 16 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.

More markers nearby

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• Archibald Roane — steps away
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