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Peter Vertrees
at the intersection of Hwy 109 and E Bledsoe St., Gallatin,
TN ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
36° 23' 11.099976",
-86° 26' 43.559988"
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Tennessee State
Historical Marker
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A prominent African-American soldier, minister, and educator, Peter Vertrees was born December 16, 1840, in Edmonton County, Kentucky, as Peter Skaggs. At age five he was apprenticed to Jacob Vertrees whose name he assumed. From 1861-1865, he was a cook and bodyguard under Dr. John L. Vertrees in the Orphan Brigade, the Sixth Kentucky Infantry C.S.A., for which he received a pension from the State of Tennessee. After the war, Vertrees came to Gallatin where he began a sixty-one year Baptist ministry establishing churches area wide.
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