The Battle of Bean's Station was fought in Grainger County, Tennessee, during the Knoxville campaign of the American Civil War. The action saw Confederate forces commanded by Lieutenant General James
Bean Station Hotel before it was dismantled in 1941 to make way for the TVA's Cherokee Dam.
The Knoxville campaign was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee, United States, during the fall of 1863, designed to secure control of the city of Knoxville and with
James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, principal commanders of the Knoxville campaign
U. S. Engineers Orville E. Babcock, left, seated on a tree stump, and Orlando Poe, right, standing on a war damaged salient in Fort Sanders, Knoxville