Stevenson was a major supply station and staging ground for decisive Civil War campaigns and battles. This small house, called The Little Brick, was alive with activity when General William S. Rosecrans relocated his command here on August 18, 1863. Over the next three weeks, urgency surrounded Stevenson and this house as Rosecrans planned the Union attack on Confederate General Braxton Bragg at Chattanooga. While headquartered at The Little Brick, Rosecrans and his staff planned the federal army's pontoon bridge crossing of the Tennessee River, telegraphed requests for additional locomotives, dispatched reconnaissance missions, ordered shipments of food, mules, weapons, and other supplies, and attended to many other plans for attack. Rosecrans was joined here by General James A. Garfield and General Ulysses S. Grant, both future Presidents of the United States. General William T. Sherman is known to have been nearby and may have visited here as well. After the war ended, The Little Brick returned to a quieter, more peaceful role in Stevenson's life, becoming a favorite abode of newlyweds even into the mid-20th century.

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Photo: Brandon Fletcher

Photo: Brandon Fletcher

Photo: Brandon Fletcher