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Knoxville, Tennessee: "Shake, Buddy!" Civil War Monument

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Address:
16th St., Knoxville, TN
Directions:
On the southeast corner of 16th St. and Clinch Ave.
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"Shake, Buddy!" Civil War Monument

A monument celebrating a lopsided Yankee victory that barely mentions it, and instead depicts a Union and Rebel soldier shaking hands, with flowery language on the need to bind the wounds of the nation.

Roadsideamerica.com Report... [09/29/2018]

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79th New York Highlanders monument.

"Shake, Buddy!" Monument

The Civil War monument is on the corner, but there was no one there to ask about it, and the Masonic Temple was closed.

[Jennifer Copeland, 09/29/2018]

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