Battle of Philadelphia

The Union colonel who lost his mountain howitzers here on October 20, 1863 was a Kentucky Unionist who fought Black enlistment. Frank Wolford raised the 1st Kentucky Cavalry in 1861, a regiment that often faced John Hunt Morgan. In March 1864 he spoke in Lexington against enlisting Black soldiers and blamed Lincoln for widespread ruin, and after remarks in Danville he was arrested and discharged. Lincoln intervened, and Wolford kept speaking. After the war he served as Kentucky's adjutant general in 1867 and 1868, and as a Democrat in Congress from 1883 to 1887.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Loudoun State Historic Park — 12 mi
  A reconstructed 1756-57 British fort on the Little Tennessee River in Overhill Cherokee country, besieged in 1760 and surrendered on August 9 of that year.
• Sequoyah Birthplace Museum — 13 mi
  The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' museum on Tellico Lake, near the town where Sequoyah was born, telling how he built the Cherokee syllabary and what the Tellico Dam drowned.
• Fort Southwest Point State Historic Park — 14 mi
  A reconstructed 1797 federal fort on a knoll at the meeting of the Clinch and Tennessee rivers, headquarters of Cherokee agent Return J. Meigs, a state park since July 2026.
• American Museum of Science and Energy — 25 mi
  The Oak Ridge museum that opened in 1949, when the Manhattan Project city's gates opened, in a town whose Black workers were housed in the Gamble Valley hutments.

More markers nearby

• TMI Academy — 5.7 mi
• Longstreet's Crossing — 5.7 mi
• Railroad Trestle — 6.4 mi
• Sweetwater Depot — 6.5 mi