Welcome To Fort Defiance
QUADRILLE, n. quadril', or cadril'.
1. A game played by four persons with 40 cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines and eights are discarded.
2. A kind of dance.
Next Board Meeting...
Second Tuesday of the Month, 6:30 pm
Pardue Church on Memorial Drive
Fort Defiance is located at 120 A Street,
Clarksville, Tennessee
For directions to the fort, see Mapquest
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With the Fort area and future visitor center under construction, the Friends of Fort Defiance Board of Directors are busy deciding what kinds of fund raisers and reenacting events they will promote this year.
One activity that is currently being planned is a late summer Ball tentatively named the Surrender Ball. Plans are being made to [...]
February 19, 1862 - February 20, 1862 - Federal occupation of Clarksville by U. S. Navy
FEBRUARY 19, 1 862.-Clarksville, Tenn., occupied by United States forces.
REPORTS.
No. 1,-Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote, U. S. Navy.
No. 2.-Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant, U. S. Army.
No. 1.
Report of Flag-Officer Andrews H. Foote, U. S. Navy.
U. S. FLAG-STEAMER [...]
Entry #1 in her diary follows.
Monday Morning February 16th ‘63
Again I have commenced a journal. I used to keep one but two years ago when the war broke out, I ceased to write in it just when I ought to have continued. Yes! Our country was then perfectly distracted; To arms! To arms! was echoed [...]
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19th Century Proverbs
.....The best things come in small packages.
-late 19th
.....Better be safe than sorry.
-mid 19th
.....Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
-mid 19th
.....Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
-late 19th
.....Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
-early 19th
.....Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
-mid 19th
.....You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.
-early 19th
Fort Defiance Quick Facts
Fort Defiance was once known as Fort Sevier and again as Fort Bruce
The fort sits on a 200 foot high buff overlooking the Cumberland River
A gun platform facing north over-looked the Cumberland river, one gun platform faced west and another bomb-proof gun platform faced south. The main gate of the fort opened to the east.
When Fort Defiance fell to Union troops, the ironclad U.S.S. Cairo and the Conestoga were on the Cumberland River near Clarksville.
Fort Clark was situated on the opposite bank of the Red River from Fort Defiance.
Trenches inside the fort were constructed for communication and at least one powder magazine.
Local historians believe that there still may be one powder magazine under the mounds at Fort Defiance.
Retired Judge Sam Boaz preserved and donated the Fort Defiance site to Clarksville in the mid 1980's.
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