Historical Marker
Battle of Hay's Ferry
Dandridge, Jefferson County · Tennessee
The Union troopers who charged with sabers late that afternoon were the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, raised in Kentucky as the 4th Tennessee Infantry from Unionists of Knox, Cocke, Greene, Hawkins, Bradley and nearby counties, and remounted as cavalry in November 1862. Their regimental history counts eleven killed and wounded and seven missing that day. Privates William J. Robertson, Pleasant Anderson and Jacob I. Mallory were killed, and Aaron Fields and Allen Bennett died of their wounds. The fight ended on the farm of B. A. Blackburn, a Unionist who took care of the wounded.
Where it stands
36.03720, -83.34920 · Directions
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