Cleveland During the Civil War

The Raht house that Union officers used in 1864 belonged to Julius E. Raht, born in Dillenburg, Nassau, in 1826 and trained in chemistry and mineralogy at Berlin. He came to the United States in 1850, reached Ducktown in 1854 and by 1860 ran every mine and smelter there. When the Confederate government took over the copper works he kept them running for their owners; in 1863 he was made to buy a substitute, then crossed the lines to Cincinnati. Back in Cleveland he helped found the Cleveland National Bank; he is buried in Fort Hill Cemetery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Red Clay State Historic Park — 12 mi
  The last seat of the Cherokee Nation before removal, where eleven general councils met from 1832 to 1837, now a state park with a council house replica, a sacred spring and an eternal flame.
• Cherokee Trail of Tears State Park — 19 mi
  The Blythe Ferry landing at the mouth of the Hiwassee, where Cherokee and Muscogee people camped in 1838 to cross the Tennessee River, made a state park in June 2026.
• Ocoee Whitewater Center — 24 mi
  The Forest Service site on the Ocoee River in Cherokee National Forest that hosted the 1996 Olympic canoe slalom, on a river that TVA dams and releases by schedule.
• Rhea County Courthouse — 25 mi
  The 1891 Dayton courthouse where John T. Scopes was tried in July 1925 for teaching evolution, with the second-floor courtroom restored and a trial museum in the basement.

More markers nearby

• Masonic Female Institute — 0.4 mi
• Union IV Corps at Blue Springs — 5.3 mi
• Cherokee History — 9.2 mi
• Marr's Fort — 11 mi