{"id":22793,"date":"2016-07-15T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=22793"},"modified":"2016-07-14T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T00:37:50","slug":"fort-defiance-interpretive-center-to-host-book-signing-and-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/07\/15\/fort-defiance-interpretive-center-to-host-book-signing-and-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Defiance Interpretive Center to host Book Signing and Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FortClarksville, TN<\/strong> \u2013 Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, located at 120 Duncan Street, will host a lecture and book signing with author Stephen Davis on Thursday, July 21st from 1:00pm \u2013 4:00pm. The lecture will begin at 1:00pm, and upon its conclusion Davis will sign copies of his book, \u201cA Long and Bloody Task\u201d until 4:00pm.<\/p>\n

Spring of 1864 brought a whole new war to the Western Theater, with new commanders and what would become a new style of warfare. Federal armies, perched in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after their stunning victories there the previous fall, poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war.<\/p>\n

\""A<\/a>

“A Long and Bloody Task” by Stephen Davis<\/p><\/div>\n

Atlanta sat in the far distance. Major General William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union\u2019s western armies, eyed it covetously\u2014the South\u2019s last great untouched prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet into the interior of the enemy\u2019s country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources,\u201d his superior, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, ordered.<\/p>\n

And so began one of the last great campaigns in the West: Sherman\u2019s long and bloody task.<\/p>\n

The acknowledged expert on all things related to the battle of Atlanta, historian Steve Davis has lived in the area the majority of his life, and in A Long and Bloody Task, he tells the tale of the Atlanta campaign as only a local can. He brings his Southern sensibility to the Emerging Civil War Series, known for its engaging storytelling and accessible approach to history.<\/p>\n

This event is free and open to the public. To learn more about Fort Defiance, please visit www.cityofclarksville.com\/fortdefiance<\/a> or call 931.472.3351.<\/p>\n

About Fort Defiance<\/h3>\n

\"Fort<\/a>Fort Defiance, which overlooks the confluence of the Red and Cumberland Rivers, was a cornerstone of the Confederate defense of the area and an important part of the eventual Union occupation of Clarksville. In 1982, Judge and Mrs. Sam Boaz, donated the property to the City of Clarksville.<\/p>\n

In 2008, the City secured a $2.2 million federal grant that was combined with local funding and the process of construction of the interpretive center and walking trails began. The more than 1,500-square-foot Center features exhibits about the local area and the fort during the Civil War.<\/p>\n

Fort Defiance Interpretive Center is open Monday-Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm and Sunday, 1:00pm to 4:00pm during the Fall & Winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN \u2013 Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, located at 120 Duncan Street, will host a lecture and book signing with author Stephen Davis on Thursday, July 21st from 1:00pm \u2013 4:00pm. The lecture will begin at 1:00pm, and upon its conclusion Davis will sign copies of his book, \u201cA Long and Bloody Task\u201d until 4:00pm. […]<\/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":[28515,7841,4124,7780,825,7178,5533,1040,28613,28514,8933,6574,19276],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5VD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793"}],"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=22793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22794,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793\/revisions\/22794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}