Burnside's Headquarters

The house belonged to John Hervey Crozier, a Knoxville lawyer who served two terms in Congress as a Whig from 1845 to 1849 and opposed the Mexican War. He turned Democrat in the 1850s, sided with the Confederacy and traded insults with Parson Brownlow for years; in 1861 his nephew, the Confederate district attorney J. C. Ramsey, had Brownlow jailed for treason. Burnside is said to have picked the house for Crozier's large library. After the war Crozier gave up law for study and helped revive the East Tennessee Historical Society in 1883.

What the plaque says

Burnside's Headquarters Site of John H. Crozier home, headquarters of Major General Ambrose Burnside, U.S.A., siege of Knoxville, November 1863.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Blount Mansion — 0.3 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.
• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 1.2 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.
• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 16 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.
• Museum of Appalachia — 17 mi
  John Rice Irwin's 65-acre collection of moved log cabins and mountain objects north of Knoxville, opened in 1969, with a cabin believed to be Mark Twain's father's.

More markers nearby

• First Presbyterian Church — steps away
• White's Mill — steps away
• Market Square — steps away
• Staub's Theatre — steps away