Portal:Tennessee/Selected anniversaries/December
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- December 13, 1887 - Alvin York, the most decorated American soldier in World War I, was born in Fentress County, Tennessee.
- December 15/16 1864 - The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle fought at Nashville in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign.
- December 24, 1865 - Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, formed the first Ku Klux Klan.
- December 29, 1835 - The Treaty of New Echota was signed by U.S. government officials and several members of the Cherokee Nation, leading to the Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears.
- December 31, 1862 - The Battle of Stones River began near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with an early morning Confederate attack on a Union encampment.
