Occupation of Jackson

Jackson felt the occupation first in its houses. Federal commanders ordered families out so officers could move in, and accounts differ on where Ulysses Grant lived: one names cotton broker James Lyon's house at 538 East Main Street, another the McCree house, where he is placed from September 23 to November 23, 1862. Before the Union arrived, Confederates had run Camp Beauregard here from May 1861, training units that included the 6th Tennessee Infantry. The town mattered because its railroad junction carried the supplies for the Mississippi campaigns.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park — 11 mi
  The largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States, about two thousand years old, with the second tallest mound in the country, a museum and paved trails.
• Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Gil Scott-Heron "Godfather of Rap" — steps away
• 61st US Colored Infantry Regiment — steps away
• Monroe Dunaway Anderson / Anderson, Clayton & Company — 0.2 mi
• Mother Liberty CME Church — 0.4 mi