{"id":19798,"date":"2015-02-03T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=19798"},"modified":"2015-02-02T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T01:05:00","slug":"clarksville-parks-and-recreation-to-commemorate-the-153rd-anniversary-of-the-surrender-of-clarksville-at-the-fort-defiance-interpretive-center-february-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/02\/03\/clarksville-parks-and-recreation-to-commemorate-the-153rd-anniversary-of-the-surrender-of-clarksville-at-the-fort-defiance-interpretive-center-february-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville Parks and Recreation to commemorate the 153rd Anniversary of the Surrender of Clarksville at the Fort Defiance Interpretive Center February 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20425\" title=\"Clarksville Parks and Recreation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/parksandrec1-450x149.jpg\" alt=\"Clarksville Parks and Recreation\" width=\"240\" height=\"79\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On Saturday, February 21st from 10:00am to 4:00pm, the Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, located at 120 Duncan Street, will host a living history event to commemorate the 153rd anniversary of the Surrender of Clarksville.<\/p>\n<p>Come see uniformed Civil War re-enactors from Baxter\u2019s Battery who will provide living history and musket firing demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/153rd-Anniversary-of-the-Surrender-of-Clarksville-b.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-298199 size-medium\" title=\"153rd Anniversary Commemoration of the Surrender of Clarksville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/153rd-Anniversary-of-the-Surrender-of-Clarksville-b-480x292.jpg\" alt=\"153rd Anniversary Commemoration of the Surrender of Clarksville\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><!--more--> Musket firing demonstrations will take place at 11:00am and 2:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can also tour the permanent exhibit which includes the 18-minute film, \u201cCrossroads of Change 1861-1865\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The surrender of Clarksville was a significant event in our Civil War history. Once Fort Defiance and the city fell, there was nothing to stop Union gunboats from capturing Nashville, which was the first Confederate state capital to fall to the North. Upon the surrender, the citizens of Clarksville endured four years of Union occupation.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For a more information, please visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortdefianceclarksville.com\" >www.fortdefianceclarksville.com<\/a> or call 931.472.3351.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; On Saturday, February 21st from 10:00am to 4:00pm, the Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, located at 120 Duncan Street, will host a living history event to commemorate the 153rd anniversary of the Surrender of Clarksville. Come see uniformed Civil War re-enactors from Baxter\u2019s Battery who will provide living history and musket firing demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[24984,1485,18398,878,825,8438,11268,7178,1482,5533,17437,12559,8437],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-59k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19799,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions\/19799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}