Step into your Tennessee ancestors' shoes at these battlefields, parks, museums and plantations..
• Battlefields and Military Parks
More Civil War battles were fought in Tennessee than in any other state besides Virginia. You can see those battlegrounds at the National Park Service-designated
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park near the Tennessee-Georgia border (706-866-9241, <
www.nps.gov/chch>),
Fort Donelson National Battlefield in Dover (931-232-5706, <
www.nps.gov/ fodo>),
Shiloh National Military Park in Shiloh (731-689-5696, <
www.nps.gov/ shil>) and
Stones River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro (615-893 9501, <
www.nps.gov/ stri>).
• Belle Meade Plantation
5025 Harding Road
Nashville, TN 37205
(615) 356-0501
During the Battle of Nashville, Union and Confederate soldiers skirmished in the front yard of this 1853 mansion. Tour the house and the surrounding historical buildings.
• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum