What to see in America . heBluffs was won, and thefort and settlement weresaved. Nashville became thecapital in 1843. It wascaptured by a Unionarmy in February, 1862,after desperate , Sherman, andGrant all held commandthere at different Southern soldierswho fell in the battlesaround the city areburied in the beautifulgrounds of the Confeder-ate Circle at Mt. Olivet,while the Federal deadsleep peacefully in theNational Cemetery not far away. Within the city limits are fully eighty schoolsand colleges, including the famous Fisk University for theeducation of negro teache
What to see in America . heBluffs was won, and thefort and settlement weresaved. Nashville became thecapital in 1843. It wascaptured by a Unionarmy in February, 1862,after desperate , Sherman, andGrant all held commandthere at different Southern soldierswho fell in the battlesaround the city areburied in the beautifulgrounds of the Confeder-ate Circle at Mt. Olivet,while the Federal deadsleep peacefully in theNational Cemetery not far away. Within the city limits are fully eighty schoolsand colleges, including the famous Fisk University for theeducation of negro teachers, which was founded in 1867,and which its Jubilee Singers sang into success. The statelyresidence of James K. Polk, eleventh President of theUnited States, still stands in the center of the miles east is the Hermitage, the hospitable mansionof President Andrew Jackson. In a corner of its garden heand his wife are buried beneath a handsome marble tomb. Memphis, the chief city of Tennessee, and the largest on. Falls op Rock Creek 212 What to See in America the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans,is situated on a bluff which rises sixty feet above the highestfloods. Here De Soto discovered the great river in 1541,after wandering for two years through the American wilder-ness from Florida; here La Salle built a fort in 1682, whichwas later abandoned; and here the Spaniards establishedthemselves for a time. When the town was organized in1819 there were a few straggling shanties clustered around aprimitive warehouse near the river. At the beginning of theCivil War it had a population of 23,000, and the claim ismade that no other city furnished so large a proportion ofmen to the Confederate armies. In 1862 a fleet of Union _ .gunboats came\ down the river and defeated theConfederate fleetbefore the city,while the popu-lace lined thebank and lookedon. Memphisthen surrenderedand never againwas under Con-federate controlexcept for a fewhours, two yearslater,
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