Forrest at Paris Landing

On October 28, 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, C.S.A., began his famous Johnsonville Raid by placing masked batteries on the banks of the Tennessee River at Paris Landing and about five miles north at abandoned Fort Heiman. Using this artillery during the next four days, the Confederates destroyed one Federal steamer, seized two more, and captured the heavily armed gunboat Undine, the last U.S. Navy warship captured during the Civil War.

Buchanan, Tennessee · United States