Johnsonville, Tennessee

ID: 597
This file appears in: Fort Heiman

This period photograph shows a United States Colored Troops artillery battery in camp at Johnsonville, Tennessee, which was south of Fort Heiman on the Tennessee River. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Fort Heiman

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #147 in Calloway County commemorates Fort Heiman, a Confederate fort erected in 1861. Fort Heiman is the least well known of three Confederate forts that were built to guard the…