Camp Gillem (Gillem Station)

Gillem Station and its camp took their name from Alvan C. Gillem, born at Gainesboro in 1830, a West Point graduate of 1851 and a Tennessean who stayed with the Union. He was provost marshal of Nashville and led the Governor's Guard for Andrew Johnson. In September 1864 his troops killed John Hunt Morgan at Greeneville. The soldiers guarding this stretch of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad included the 12th, 13th and 100th U.S. Colored Troops. In 1886 a land speculator renamed the stop Tennessee City, expecting a metropolis that never came.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Johnsonville State Historic Park — 25 mi
  A Tennessee River park on the site of a Union supply depot shelled in November 1864 and of the town later drowned by Kentucky Lake, with earthworks, a railroad bed and an African American cemetery.

More markers nearby

• Irish Shanty — steps away
• Ruskin Cave — 4.8 mi
• James Worley — 4.9 mi
• Frank Goad Clement — 7.2 mi