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Occupied Clarksville & the Confederate Recapture:
Clarksville, a vital link to the Union's supply depot at Nashville, was garrisoned by Union troops protecting supplies, railroads and telegraph lines. In April 1862, the garrison shrank to six companies of the 71st Ohio Infantry, whose four other companies held Dover. In August, combined CSA cavalry forces of Colonels Thomas Woodward and Adam Rankin (Stovepipe) Johnson took Clarksville and the 71st Ohio without firing a shot. Johnson took supplies and left for Kentucky. Woodward rode to
Thomas Woodward, who attended West Point, raised several Confederate Kentucky units and became Colonel of the 15th Kentucky Cavalry. |