Map of Henning town, Tennessee

Henning is a town in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 945 at the 2010 census.

Henning town overview:
Name:	Henning town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Tennessee
County:	Lauderdale County
Elevation:	292 ft (89 m)
Total Area:	2.47 sq mi (6.40 km²)
Land Area:	2.47 sq mi (6.39 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.01 km²)
Total Population:	871
Population Density:	353.06/sq mi (136.31/km²)
ZIP code:	38041
Area code:	731
FIPS code:	4733360
GNISfeature ID:	1287426

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History

Founded in the late 1800s, the town is named after prominent businessman and railway official William H. Henning. The infamous Battle of Fort Pillow, a Civil War victory for the Confederates, took place near Henning. Here, nearly 300 black troops serving in the Union Army were massacred after surrendering by Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Confederate refusal to treat these troops as traditional prisoners of war infuriated the North, and led to the Union’s refusal to participate in prisoner exchanges. Union survivors’ accounts, later supported by a federal investigation, concluded that African-American troops were massacred by Forrest’s men after surrendering.

In 1900, a local black man, Anderson Gause, was lynched by a mob.