Fort Lilly

The Black soldiers who garrisoned Fort Lilly did not start out as the 110th and 111th U.S. Colored Troops. They were raised at Pulaski as the 2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry of African Descent, organized November 20, 1863, and the 3rd, organized January 3, 1864. Both served in the Department of Tennessee, drawing mostly men who had been enslaved in Giles County and in Limestone County, Alabama, and both were renumbered on June 25, 1864. Their duties were garrison work at Pulaski and Athens, Alabama, and guarding the railroads that ran south into northern Alabama.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Public Square and the Giles County Courthouse — 0.4 mi
  The 1909 courthouse and nineteenth-century storefronts on Pulaski's square, in the town where the Ku Klux Klan was founded and where the architect Moses McKissack III was born.
• James D. Vaughan Southern Gospel Music Museum — 17 mi
  A museum on the third floor of the Vaughan Municipal Building on the Lawrenceburg square, honoring the shape-note publisher who built a songbook, quartet and radio empire here from 1903.
• David Crockett State Park — 19 mi
  A Lawrenceburg park on Shoal Creek where Davy Crockett ran a gristmill, a powder mill and a distillery from 1817, and later broke with Andrew Jackson over Indian removal.
• Meriwether Lewis Site — 32 mi
  The place on the Natchez Trace Parkway where Meriwether Lewis died in October 1809, with his 1848 monument, a pioneer cemetery, a walk on the Old Trace and a free campground.

More markers nearby

• Gabriel McKissack — 0.2 mi
• Bridgeforth High School — 0.4 mi
• Donald Grady Davidson and John Crowe Ransom — 0.4 mi
• Walter Herschel Beech — 0.6 mi