The Campbell Station Inn, also known as the Avery Russell House, was associated with the Russell family after Matthew Russell purchased the home and property from the heirs of Samuel Martin in 1858, following Martin’s death without a will and the inheritance of the property by his daughter Nancy. Matthew Russell and his twin brother John ran a store at Campbell’s Station, but the coming of the railroad in the mid-1800s reduced traffic by stagecoaches, cattle drovers, and other travelers along Kingston Pike, hurting the inns there. The Civil War brought greater hardship to Campbell’s Station. In the fall of 1863, the Union’s 24th Kentucky and 103rd Ohio Infantries camped near Concord and took supplies from nearby farms. On Nov. 15, 1863, Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet clashed with General Ambrose Burnside’s Union army just east of the inn in the Battle of Campbell’s Station. Longstreet’s First Corps had moved north from Chattanooga after the Battle of Chickamauga in an effort to retake Knoxville, crossing the Tennessee River at Huff’s Ferry on Nov. 13 with about 20,000 men, including 5,000 cavalry, while Burnside retreated along the railroad toward Knoxville. Both armies raced for Campbell’s Station, which Longstreet hoped to seize before Burnside could reach Knoxville’s fortifications, but Burnside arrived first. Longstreet’s cavalry had already ravaged Union supply wagons and reserve artillery trains, and Burnside deployed his army on both sides of Kingston Pike to protect his supply train. Within 15 minutes the battle began, and although Longstreet timed attacks against both Union flanks at once, forcing the right to redeploy, the Union lines held. The fighting ended at nightfall with casualties in the hundreds on both sides, and Union troops continued to Knoxville. The war reached local resident Nancy Galbraith’s home on Nov. 16, 1863, when Confederate soldiers brought Union prisoners and fifteen wounded Union soldiers there along with a Confederate doctor. Nancy, a 44-year-old widow whose nine-year-old son Robert had died in October and whose older sons Samuel Andrew and Thomas were away serving in the First Tennessee Infantry, cared for the wounded with help from her family and neighbors. Among them was V.W. Bruce, an 18-year-old Adrian College student serving in the Seventeenth Michigan Infantry, who had been wounded in the right knee in a skirmish in the Virtue community before reaching Campbell’s Station, where Confederates overtook his regiment, leaving 18 dead or wounded and many captured. At Nancy Galbraith’s house, Bruce and the other wounded were treated in her best room, straw was carried a mile and a half to make beds, Bruce’s leg was amputated by Confederate surgeons 24 hours after he was wounded, and two of Nancy’s boys, Abram and David, buried his foot in the backyard. Bruce recalled that the wounded remained there nearly a month while Nancy Galbraith and her older daughter fed, cooked for, washed for, and cared for them from her secreted stores, and that on Thanksgiving night neighborhood young women visited with molasses candy and shared a candy pull with the wounded soldiers.