A picturesque field near Corryton will transform into a Civil War battlefield as part of a four-day observance of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sanders with 1,000 re-enactors and 16 period-accurate artillery pieces. Re-enactments of the battle of Fort Sanders and Campbell’s Station are planned for Oct. 12 and 13.
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A picturesque field near Corryton will transform into a Civil War battlefield as part of a four-day observance of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sanders, hosted by Knox County and the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable. The event will be held in the 10,000 block of Washington Pike on the site of the reconstructed northwest bastion of the Civil War fort. Re-enactments of the battle of Fort Sanders and Campbell’s Station are planned for Oct. 12 and 13.
The site will be open to the public on Friday afternoon with period military demonstrations, presentations and public lectures. Event organizers expect as many as 1,000 re-enactors and 16 period-accurate artillery pieces at the event, making it one of the largest attended re-enactments in the event’s history.
Union and Confederate cavalry units, along with horse and mule drawn supply wagons, will take the field during the Battle of Campbell’s Station re-enactment. Civilian re-enactors will also populate a small East Tennessee homestead re-creation complete with a hand-built cabin and other out-buildings.
