“Ten Miles of Incredible Civil War History”
By Maury County CVB
06/13/2008
Group will enjoy this tour that acquaints the curious and history buffs with their personal window to the Civil War.
Contact Information:
t: view phone 888-852-1860
e: view email cwells@maurycounty-tn.gov
w: view URL http://www.antebellum.com
- Rippavilla Plantation
- Oaklawn Plantation
- The Spring Hill Battlefield
- Ferguson Hall
Tour Dates:
Number of Days: 1
9:00am
Arrive at Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill. Your complimentary step-on guide will join the group here. There will be time for a restroom break before hearing a brief history of the house in the courtyard.
9:30am
Depart for Oaklawn Plantation. Guide will set the stage of what would become the Confederate attack on Nashville. We will follow the same route both armies took as they raced towards what for many would be their doom in the Battles of Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville.
The Spring Hill Affair
Civil War Tour Itinerary
9:45am
Arrive at the site of Confederate General John Bell Hood’s headquarters home,
Oaklawn Plantation. This gracious plantation home sits on a pristine 200 acres of farm land. It was here that General Hood was accused of letting “the whole damn Yankee Army slip by him in the middle of the night”. Form your own theory why this wonderfully restored home helped lead to the destruction of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Note: Former home of George Jones and Tammy Wynette!
11:00am
Following in the fighting soldiers footsteps, we depart for The Spring Hill Battlefield.
11:15am
Arrive at the preserved scene of the heaviest Calvary action of the entire campaign,
The Spring Hill Battlefield. It was here that a confused Union Army in disarray caught an unaware Confederate Calvary charging up a hill to their waiting cannons. Chaos and carnage followed this rare night time battle. This recently preserved battlefield is not only historic, but beautiful.
11:45am
Depart for lunch at Rippavilla.
Noon
The story picks up where it did during the Spring Hill Battle, over the dinner table at Rippavilla Plantation. We will dine in the same rooms General Hood and his commanding officers dined prior to the ill fated Battle of Franklin.
Our 1864 Plantation Southern Dinner will greet our hungry travelers with platters full of “Yellow Leg Fried Chicken,” Country Ham and biscuits and a garden full of southern vegetables. We will be assured a better fate than those soldiers did as we depart from our meal.
1:15pm
Depart Rippavilla for near by Ferguson Hall.
1:30pm
We southerners like to serve a little gossip with our dessert. Where better than at Ferguson Hall? This 1854 plantation home is the site where a jealous husband with murder in his heart took aim and dashed the hopes of a fiery southern belle, robbed the Confederacy of a brilliant General and changed the course of the War. You will be served up more than coffee and homemade dessert as you try to unravel the events of that fateful day.
2:30pm
Time to leave the past and try to draw your own conclusions of just what occurred in this sleepy little town when their entire world changed as two armies met in what would become known to history as The Spring Hill Affair.
