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1. TREST_100925_002.JPG: Travellers Rest "The proudest moment of my life" -- Hood's Campaign -- In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood moved north into Tennessee. Gen. John M. Schofield, detached from Sherman's army, delayed Hood at Columbia and Spring Hill before falling back to Franklin. The bloodbath here on November 30 crippled the Confederates, but they followed Schofield to the outskirts of Nashville and Union Gen. George H. Thomas's strong defenses. Hood's campaign ended when Thomas crushed his army on December 15-16. On December 2, 1864, two days after the bloody Battle of Franklin, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood established his headquarters here at Travellers Rest, the home of John Overton, a prominent planter and businessman, and his wife, Harriet Overton. Hood and his staff established themselves in the house and in tents around the grounds. During the two weeks leading up to the Battle of Nashville, Hood's subordinates met with him here, where the Overton family entertained Gens. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Stephen D. Lee, Benjamin F. Cheatham, Alexander P. Stewart, and others. Harriet Overton later recalled an occasion when seven Confederate generals were seated at her dining room table as "the proudest moment of my life." Hood remained at the house until December 15, the first day of the Battle of Nashville. On December 16, heavy fighting raged at Peach Orchard Hill, then located on the farm about 600 yards to the northwest. A failed Union assault against heavy Confederate defenses resulted in about 1,000 US casualties, or a third of the Union losses in the entire battle. Some of the heaviest casualties occurred among several regiments of US Colored Troops, most of them former slaves, who performed with extreme bravery under fire. The 13th USCT lost 221 men out of 470. Despite the Federal casualties, Hood was defeated later that day, ending the Battle of Nashville.
2. TREST_100925_004.JPG: Turnpikes & Railroads: In 1838, the Nashville & Franklin Turnpike (Franklin Road) opened as a macadamized roll road that crossed the Overton property. Originally a rutted trail, a new road was one of several turnpikes that radiated outward from the Cumberland River wharfs. At age 17, John Overton II became a major stockholder in the turnpike company and, reportedly, worked the toll booth near Travellers Rest on occasion. Then, in 1850, the railroad came to Nashville. John Overton II was a charter director on the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad in 1853. The line ran between Nashville and Decatur, Alabama. The elevated track closest to the interstate is the original railroad bed that ran across the Overton property. During the war, the line was renamed the Nashville to Decatur and became part of the United States Consolidated Railroad used by the Union Army to move men and supplies following the occupation of Nashville in February 1862. We have been informed that as the Sunday evening train from Columbia was passing near the residence of John Overton in this county, it was thrown from the track by an obstruction laid across the rails. There were on the train several sick soldiers. The indignant passengers visited their wrong upon Mr. Overton by burning his barn and quartering for the night in his house. He has, as it is well known, been prominently connected with the rebellion, and has contributed largely of his immense wealth to its support. He is understood to have escaped a few days ago to avoid an arrest for treason, a warrant having been issued for that purpose. We do not known what circumstances connected him with the outrage in the minds of the injured passengers. An arrest has been made, and the matter will doubtless be fully investigated. -- Nashville Union, April 15, 1862
3. TREST_100925_005.JPG: Overton Station: During the late 19th and early 20th century, Travellers Rest had a small depot along the Nashville and Decatur line. In 1872, the track was leased by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in order to extend the line from Nashville to Montgomery, Alabama. This gave the railroad control of shipping out of Birmingham, founded in 1871, and their fledgling iron industry.
4. TREST_100925_006.JPG: Radnor Yard: In 1951, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad purchased Travellers Rest from the property's last resident, Dr. John Youmans. As the railroad expanded the Radnor Yard terminal facility, workers used the house as an office, and many of the site's outbuildings were removed. After the completion of the yards in 1954, the railroad considered razing the house. Instead, the site were deeded to the Tennessee Society of the National Society of the Colonial dames of America for use as a museum.
5. TREST_100925_007.JPG: Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864: Following the bloody November 30, 1864 battle at Franklin, Union and Confederate forces met here, in Nashville, in the last major engagement of the Civil War in the West. Led by General John Bell Hood, the 22,000-man Confederate Army of Tennessee entrenched south of town in an attempt to draw out the Federal garrison of 58,000 men under the command of Major General George H. Thomas. After a two week delay that included a bitter winter storm, the Union Army advanced on the foggy morning of December 15th. Following a brief feint against the Confederate right, Thomas attacked the entrenched Confederate positions along Hillsboro Pike with a combination of infantry and dismounted cavalry. By early afternoon, Federal troops overwhelmed the Confederates left flank. Hood's army was forced to retreat south two miles.
6. TREST_100925_008.JPG: Map of the battle lines around Nashville. Note Travellers Rest at the bottom.
7. TREST_100925_009.JPG: Peach Orchard Hill: Located 600 yards west of Travellers Rest, the extreme right Confederate flank at Peach Orchard Hill on December 16th was defended by two brigades and two artillery batteries from Clayton's Division of Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee's Corps. A Union soldier reported after gazing at the earthworks that the position was "truly formidable" and would be "very difficult to carry." The hill was attacked numerous times in the afternoon. The 13th United States Colored Infantry lost over 200 men in the assault, including five color bearers. Peach Orchard Hill was the only Confederate position to hold on the second day.
8. TREST_100925_012.JPG: View of the railroad lines nearby
9. TREST_100925_090.JPG: Someone was doing wedding photos
10. TREST_100925_126.JPG: Travellers Rest: In 1799, Overton contracted to build a small but sophisticated wooden structure. Based on a Virginian model, the first house had two stories with four rooms. The seam to the left of the front door marks the division between the 1779 house its 1808 addition. Although small, the fact that the house was a framed structure, rather than log, distinguished it from many of its contemporaries i Nashville. Other additions were made to the house in 1828 and again in 1885, including a two-story brick addition with an ell-shaped Federal-style gallery. In 1885, Overton's grandson, May, added a fashionable Victorian facelift to the house. Long slender windows, fancy front porch, and Victorian detailing updated the old plantation house. By 1921, a new generation of Overtons found the Victorian facade out-of-date. Harriet Overton Williams replaced the Victorian porch with a simple classical portico, although the long Victorian windows remained.
11. TREST_100925_141.JPG: Schoolhouse
Wikipedia Description: Travellers Rest (Nashville, Tennessee)
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Travellers Rest is a historic plantation in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 1799, the two story structure with four rooms was built by Judge John Overton (1766–1833). Overton was an advisor and close friend of Andrew Jackson, judge at the Superior Court of Tennessee and co-founder of Memphis, Tennessee. Overton originally named the property Golgotha after the large number of prehistoric skulls that were unearthed while digging the cellar of the house. Archaeologists now know that these remains were part of a large Mississippian village site. Overton changed the name of the plantation to Travellers Rest in the early 1800s to reflect the recreational effect his home had on him after the long rides on horseback that he had to undertake as a circuit judge. Overton died at Travellers Rest on April 12, 1833.

The plantation building was saved from demolition and restored in 1954 to become a museum. Additional archaeological finds were reported from the property as recently as 1995, when construction at the visitors center resulted in disturbance of additional human burials. As of 2008, the Travellers Rest Plantation & Museum houses exhibits that document the life and work of John Overton, the history of the Overton Plantation and Nashville in the Civil War. It is located at 636 Farrell Parkway in Nashville. Travellers Rest is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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