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3 unusual facts about Nickajack Cave


Nickajack Cave

Soon after the war started, the operation at Nickajack Cave was taken over by the Confederate government.

Country singer Gary Allan recorded a song about this experience on his 2005 album Tough All Over.

Page 85 of the February 6, 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly shows a drawing of the cave entrance and some of the saltpeter mining and refining equipment located outside the cave.



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