Old Gray Cemetery

Ellen Renshaw House was nineteen when she began a diary in Knoxville in 1863, three years after her family arrived from Georgia. She called herself a very violent Rebel in a region where most people backed the Union. She wrote of the Federal takeover in September with contempt, watched Longstreet's assault that winter, and helped Confederate prisoners of war. Union authorities, suspecting her of spying, expelled her to Georgia, where she kept writing. Daniel E. Sutherland edited the diary for the University of Tennessee Press in 2008. She lies in Old Gray under her married name, Fletcher.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Blount Mansion — 1.0 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 — 1.5 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 — 15 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 — 16 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

• Old Gray Cemetery — steps away
• Battery Wiltsie — 0.5 mi
• Civil War Hospital — 0.6 mi
• Beauford and Joseph Delaney — 0.6 mi