Nashville
['næʃvil]
Definition
(noun.) capital of the state of Tennessee; located in the north central part of the state on the Cumberland River; known for country music.
Checked by Dylan--From WordNet
Examples
- It was the great strategic position at the West between the Tennessee and the Mississippi rivers and between Nashville and Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 29th Sherman sent Thomas back to Chattanooga, and afterwards to Nashville, with another division (Morgan's) of the advanced army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was back in Nashville by the 13th of January, 1864. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sherman's force made an additional army, with cavalry, artillery, and trains, all to be supplied by the single track road from Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He will have an ample force when the reinforcements ordered reach Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As soon as he saw me he showed an order he had just received from Buell in these words: NASHVILLE, February 25, 1862. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He got a railroad pass as far as Decatur, and walked a hundred and fifty miles from there to Nashville. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The superintendent would not even give me a pass to Nashville, so I had to pay my fare. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I then directed that Smith should hang to Forrest and not let him go; and to prevent by all means his getting upon the Memphis and Nashville Railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was for General Thomas, at Nashville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thomas has got back into the defences of Nashville, with Hood close upon him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This was the first I knew of his objecting to my going to Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Nashville was the most central point from which to communicate with my entire military division, and also with the authorities at Washington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All supplies for Rosecrans had to be brought from Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Fort Donelson was the gate to Nashville--a place of great military and political importance--and to a rich country extending far east in Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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