Baker Peters Jazz Club

Tennessee · United States · Execution site

Union troops came for Dr Baker in 1864 while he was treating wounded Confederates in his own house outside Knoxville. The house is now a jazz bar.

The building that houses Baker Peters Jazz Club in Knoxville, Tennessee is a Civil War era residence, put up by Dr James Harvey Baker. His own allegiances are disputed: some accounts place him with the Confederacy, others describe him as neutral. What is agreed is that he had at least one son, Abner, who fought hard for the Confederate side. Some versions of the family history give him two sons, on opposing sides.

During the Union invasion of the area in 1864, Dr Baker was treating wounded Confederate soldiers in his own home when Union troops arrived at the house. What happened to him there is the incident the building has never shaken off.

The house is now an expensive and fashionable bar, which means the reports come from staff and customers in a room that has been renovated repeatedly since. The accounts concentrate upstairs. A doctor killed in his own house while treating the wounded is the kind of story that survives every change of use a building goes through, and this one has survived a good many.

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Where is Baker Peters Jazz Club located?

Baker Peters Jazz Club is in Tennessee, United States.