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Coming from Huntsville: four Tennessee towns up the road
Our guides cover Tennessee towns. Our road trips follow the history wherever it goes, including into North Alabama. If you live in or are visiting Huntsville, here is how close our four towns are.
Drive times from the Huntsville Depot
Fayetteville, Tenn.
30.1 miles · about 39 minutes
The last town the 1862 march left before Huntsville, and Camp Blount, where Jackson's 1813 march began.
Lynchburg, Tenn.
45.4 miles · about 1 hr 1 min
A small courthouse square. Its tie to Huntsville is the 1813 Creek War, not the Civil War.
Pulaski, Tenn.
44 miles · about 1 hr 6 min
Where three U.S. Colored Troops regiments served, and the 1864 railroad loop through Athens.
Shelbyville, Tenn.
56.3 miles · about 1 hr 13 min
Where the 1862 march came through and where Andrews' Raiders gathered.
Follow the history
- The Road to Huntsville, 1862: the Union march from Shelbyville and Fayetteville to the Huntsville Depot.
- The railroad in 1864: Pulaski to Athens and back.
- An earlier, different story: Jackson’s 1813 march from Fayetteville to Camp Beaty in Huntsville.
A full day: drive to Shelbyville first (about 56 miles), then follow the 1862 road back south through Fayetteville to Huntsville.
Photo credits
- The Huntsville Depot in 2010, with the sign it carried then. Photo: Chris Pruitt, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Drive distances and times: OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap data, from 320 Church St. NW, Huntsville, to each town square, checked Oct. 27, 2026.