Historical Marker
Blant's Hill
Dandridge, Jefferson County · Tennessee
Oscar H. La Grange, one of the Union colonels stopped on this hill, came to the war from Ripon, Wisconsin, already a veteran of the antislavery cause. As a teenager he went to Kansas in 1855 for the free-state fight, and in 1860 he helped the abolitionist editor Sherman Booth escape a Milwaukee jail, then hid from the law for weeks. Elected captain of the Ripon Rifles in 1861, he rose to brigade command in the cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland. He later ran the San Francisco Mint and died in New York in 1915.
Where it stands
36.01538, -83.41422 · Directions
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