Camp Bell

Before it was Camp Bell, this was Seawell's house. William Seawell built the Greek Revival house about 1835, and the Campbell family later bought it. William B. Campbell, a Whig Unionist who had declined a Confederate command, died here on August 19, 1867. He had served as an adviser to President Andrew Johnson during the Senate trial that followed impeachment. The house stayed in the family, and by 1982 his great-granddaughter, Mary Williamson Thomas, owned it. It joined the National Register that April.

What the plaque says

Camp Bell William Bowen Campbell shaped Tennessee's antebellum political and military history. His military career included action in the Seminole War, the Mexican War, and the U. S. Civil War. Campbell served in the Tennessee General Assembly (1836), U. S. House of Representatives (1837-1843 and 1866-1867) and as the 14th governor of Tennessee (1851-1853). President Abraham Lincoln commissioned Campbell brigadier general in 1862, a position he held until illness forced his resignation in 1863. His home, Camp Bell, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1950 Fort Campbell, the home of the 101st Airborne Division, was name in his honor of Campbell.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wynnewood State Historic Site — 12 mi
  A National Historic Landmark log inn at the Bledsoe's Lick springs, beside a Mississippian mound center and tied to the domestic slave trade.
• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 17 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Stones River National Battlefield — 25 mi
  The Murfreesboro battlefield of December 1862, with a national cemetery built by Black soldiers, a Trail of Tears route and the story of the freedmen's settlement called Cemetery.
• Red Boiling Springs — 33 mi
  A Macon County spa town built around red sulphur springs, with five kinds of mineral water, red-painted pumps and the surviving hotels of a resort that once held more than a dozen.

More markers nearby

• Judge Nathan Green, Sr. — 1.0 mi
• Castle Heights Military Academy — 1.0 mi
• Caruthers Hall — 1.2 mi
• Robert Looney Caruthers — 1.2 mi