Ashby posted bail and fled to Atlanta, but returned to Knoxville in 1868 after the charges were dropped. In 1866, Camp accused Ashby of cruelly mistreating 431 Union soldiers that had been captured by Confederate forces in 1862, leading to Ashby's arrest and indictment for treason. Shortly after the war, Camp became embroiled in a quarrel with Colonel Henry Ashby, a native Virginian who had fought for the Confederacy. Impressed with the virtually untouched mineral resources of the surrounding region, Camp decided to make the city his permanent home. In February 1865, shortly before he was mustered out with the rank of major, Camp accompanied General Joseph Alexander Cooper to Knoxville. In June 1864, Camp's regiment successfully guided supplies through the hostile Virginia wilderness to reinforce General Ulysses S. Camp saw action at the Battle of Island Number Ten and the Battle of Petersburg. Īt the outbreak of the Civil War, Camp returned to Ohio and enlisted in the 142nd Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. While in Platte City, he began studying law. He taught school at Richmond, Kentucky, from 1857 to 1860, and at Platte City, Missouri, from 1860 until 1861. Camp attended school in nearby Chesterville, and trained to be a teacher. His parents were both primarily of English descent. Ĭamp was born in 1839 on the Mount Vernon, Ohio-area farm of his parents, Eldad Cicero Camp, Sr. In the 1890s, Camp helped establish Knoxville's Florence Crittenton Home and Camp's Home for Friendless Women. During the late 1860s, he organized the Coal Creek Coal Company, which in subsequent decades grew to become one of the major coal producing companies in the region. District Attorney for East Tennessee, serving from 1869 until 1871. In 1868, he killed Confederate colonel Henry Ashby in a notorious shootout in downtown Knoxville. Ī Union officer during the Civil War, Camp arrived in Knoxville in 1865. His prominent North Knoxville mansion, Greystone, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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He was president of the Coal Creek Coal Company, president of the Virginia-Tennessee Coal Company, a director of Knoxville's Third National Bank, and at his height, was one of the wealthiest men in East Tennessee.
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(Aug– November 21, 1920) was an American coal tycoon, attorney and philanthropist, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the vicinity, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.