Battle of Nashville: Redoubt No. 4

Hood's left flank rested on five small detached redoubts, each mounting two to four guns and held by about 150 men. They stood apart from the main line, and on December 15, 1864, they fell one after another. Four Union brigades, two of infantry and two of cavalry, overran this one and then the next, despite a spirited defense. Once they were gone the Confederate left was open, and Hood pulled his army back at nightfall.

What the plaque says

Battle of Nashville 0.3 mi. west was Redoubt No. 4 in Hood's detached supporting works. Garrisoned by Lumsden's Battery of smoothbore Napoleons, supported by 100 men of the 29th Alabama Infantry under Capt. Foster, it was finally overrun by the assault of 12 infantry and 4 dismounted cavalry regiments, supported by four Federal batteries.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Negley — 3.9 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• National Museum of African American Music — 4.7 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 4.7 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.
• Ryman Auditorium — 4.8 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Nashville: Redoubt No. 5 — 0.5 mi
• Battle of Nashville: Redoubt No. 3 — 0.8 mi
• Confederate Defenses — 1.0 mi
• Homes of David Lipscomb — 1.4 mi