Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division

Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division
ISBN-10
1572331690
ISBN-13
9781572331693
Category
History
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2020-02-23
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Christopher Losson

Description

Benjamin Franklin Cheatham was a Nashville native and a descendant of the city's founder, James Robertson. Born in 1820, he achieved fame through his military service in the Mexican War and, especially, the Civil War. After the war Cheatham farmed, ran for Congress, and, at the time of his death in 1866, was postmaster of Nashville. Cheatham was one of Nashville's most popular sons, and his funeral, which drew some thirty thousand people, was reportedly the largest ever held in the city.

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