Interesting Facts about Tennessee

• The only known defeat of a naval force by cavalry was carried out in a Civil War raid by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
• On November 4, 1864, Forrest's cavalry attacked the federal supply base at Johnsonville on the Tennessee River. The base, with its fleet of 30 gunboats, transports, and barges, was virtually destroyed.
• When Tennessean Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, his fans in Tennessee spread the word that Jackson had left immediately to conquer England.
• Confederate heroine Antoinette Polk was so close to capture by Union forces that they managed to pluck a feather from her hat, but she escaped to warn Confederate troops of Union plans.