Fighting for Freedom (Haywood County African American Soldiers)

More than 200 men from Haywood County served in the United States Colored Troops, most of them in heavy artillery, and the Brownsville marker lists them by name and regiment. Their units show where they were sent. The 3rd Heavy Artillery guarded Memphis, the 4th garrisoned Fort Halleck at Columbus, Kentucky, and the 55th Infantry fought at Brice's Crossroads, Mississippi, on June 10, 1864. Tennessee supplied 20,133 Black soldiers, fewer only than Louisiana and Kentucky. Most of the regiments were mustered out by 1866.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School — 3.7 mi
  The one-room Black school Tina Turner attended in Nutbush, moved to Brownsville in 2012 and opened as a museum in 2014 beside Sleepy John Estes's house.
• Alex Haley House Museum — 19 mi
  The 1919 bungalow in Henning where Alex Haley heard the family stories behind Roots, now a state historic site and museum with his grave in the front yard.

More markers nearby

• The Brownsville Raids — steps away
• Brownsville — steps away
• Elbert Williams — steps away
• Golden Circle Life Insurance Company — steps away