By Jennifer Brooks, The Tennessean
A century and a half after the Civil War almost tore Tennessee apart, the state is coming together to remember.
It was April 12, 1861, and Nashville was a sleepy river town of 16,000 people, unaware that 500 miles to the east, the cannons in Charleston harbor opened fire on federal forces in Fort Sumter. They couldn’t know that within a year, their city would be occupied by Union troops and their state would be the central battleground of the war’s
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