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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 100 (search)
uring our trip across this mountain, one of them belonging to Floyd's body-guard, and one to the celebrated State Rights guards, the worst specimen of humanity I ever saw. We were again in the saddle all night, going at a brisk trot. On the top of the mountain the First Duty Sergeant of company D, Second Michigan, was killed by a bushwhacker, and the Orderly Sergeant of the same company taken prisoner. At eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning, we entered Blountsville, the county-seat of Sullivan County. As we entered the town, a lady ran to the door, throwing up her hands, exclaiming; The Yankees! The Yankees! Great God, we are lost! After stopping here a few minutes to feed our horses, we proceeded toward Zollicoffer, formerly called Union Station, on the Virginia and East-Tennessee Railroad. At this station were encamped about one hundred and fifty of the Sixty-second North-Carolina regiment, confederate soldiers, under command of Major McDowell. Colonel Carter, being in advanc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
t......April 2, 1781 Pre-emption right allowed to settlers on the Cumberland by legislature of North Carolina, 640 acres to each family or head of family......April, 1782 Court of oyer and terminer held at Jonesboro for Washington and Sullivan counties......Aug. 15, 1782 Treaty at Nashboro, by which the Chickasaws cede to North Carolina a tract extending nearly 40 miles south from Cumberland River......1783 First Methodist preacher comes to east Tennessee......1783 Commissionersy of North Carolina cedes to the United States territory west of the Alleghany Mountains on condition that Congress accepts it within two years......June 2, 1784 Believing themselves no longer a part of North Carolina, settlers in Washington, Sullivan, and Greene counties meet in convention at Jonesboro, choose John Sevier president, and form a constitution for the State of Frankland......Dec. 14, 1784 Governor Caswell, of North Carolina, pronounces the revolt of Frankland usurpation......
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Missouri Volunteers. (search)
nty by authority of Col. Phelps. Approved by Gen. Sigel August, 1861. Duty in Barry County till August. Mustered out August, 1861. Stone County Regiment home Guard Infantry. Organized May, 1861. Accepted by Gen. Lyon June 5, 1861. Dutp in Stone and Barry Counties. Mustered out July 19, 1861. Shawneetown (Putnam County) home Guard Company Infantry. Organized July, 1861. Scouting in Schuyler County, and duty at Kirksville. Mustered out September, 1861. Sullivan County home Guard Infantry (2 Companies). Organized June, 1861, by authority of Gen. Lyon. Duty in Sullivan, Adair and Macon Counties. Mustered out September, 1861. Shelby County Company home Guard Infantry. Organized July 23, 1861, by authority of Gen. Hurlbut. Duty at Hannibal, Mo., and on Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. Mustered out September, 1861. Webster County Regiment home Guard Infantry. Organized July, 1861. Duty at Springfield, Mo. Mustered out Augus
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
ce to Murfreesboro, where the remnants of Zollicoffer's command from Fishing creek had gone into camp. From Murfreesboro it went to Decatur and thence to Courtland, Ala., and went into camp at Corinth, Miss., to await the concentration there of an army to meet the Federal advance. It there rested from the exposure and fatigue of the retreat out of Kentucky. Then followed the battle of Shiloh, where General Shaver commanded the brigade under General Hindman. Colonel Shaver was born in Sullivan county, east Tennessee, and came to Arkansas in 1851, settling at Batesville and engaging in merchandise. He was educated at Emory and Henry college, Virginia, and had not received any military training. At the time the war began he was doing business about twenty miles east of Batesville, in what was then Lawrence, now Sharp county. He entered with enthusiasm into the raising of troops for the service. As the Confederate government was very slow about receiving volunteers for the service
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
through both his thighs, severing the femoral arteries. Without falling he said to his adjutant, Captain Clarke, Take me back. On being removed a short distance he asked to be laid down, and in a few minutes breathed his last. He was buried in Richmond. One of the youngest general officers of the army, he had proved his fitness for command. A man of serene courage and unblemished moral character, he won general admiration. Brigadier-General Charles Miller Shelley was born in Sullivan county, Tenn., December 28, 1833, son of William P. Shelley, a contractor and builder, who carried his family to Talladega, Ala., in 1836. At that place he was educated and brought up to his father's trade. After the secession of Alabama, but before hostilities had actually commenced, he went to Fort Morgan with the Talladega artillery, of which he was a lieutenant. This was in February, 1861. After remaining at Fort Morgan six weeks, the company returned to camp at Talladega, where it was re
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Retribution. (search)
From Tennessee. Bristol, Tenn, May 7. --Johnson and Nelson, on approaching Blountville, were met by a deputation of citizens, who presented them the note of the Committee of Forty-Two.--They responded that if a majority of the meeting did not wish to hear them, they would not inflict a speech upon them. Whereupon, the vote was again taken upon the question of permitting them to speak. The meeting was composed of fifteen hundred persons. Five persons voted to hear them, three of them came up on the train with Johnson and Nelson, and were citizens of Carter county. Finding such an overwhelming majority against them, they concluded not to speak. Sullivan county is now a unit for the South.
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Burnt to death (search)
Burnt to death --A woman named Cynthia Maguire, from Lee county, Va, was burnt to death at Reedy Creek Camp Ground, Sullivan county, Tenn, on Saturday morning, the 1st instant, from her clothes taking fire. It appears that, traveling with her two children, she had fallen in with some wagoners, on Friday evening, going towards Lee, who permitted her to camp with them. In the morning, while the latter were gearing their horses, they were attracted by her shrieks, and, going to her aid, found her enveloped in flames, her dress having caught from the camp fire. She expired almost instantly. She was supposed to have been intoxicated at the time of the accident.
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military rank. (search)
n flames, clearly showing that some rapid combustible material was used. Two of the bridges on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railways were destroyed--one bridge was over Lick creek, in Greene county, and another over the Holston river, in Sullivan county. The guard at Lick creek were unarmed and overwhelmed, and were tied and carried away, and kept off until some time during the day on Saturday. Three men have been arrested whom the guard identified. The bridge over the Holston river was not guarded, as Sullivan county is known to be strongly in favor of the Confederate Government. The bridge over the Holston river at Strawberry Plains, in Jefferson county, was set on fire, but the fire was put out by the people. The guard had one hand cut off and his skull fractured. The indications are that one of the incendiaries was killed. A gentleman, just from East Tennessee, reports that great excitement prevails there, in consequence of the evidently preconcerted pl
The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
d find check for two hundred dollars; place it in proper hands. We need many such boats as the one contemplated.--There is no telling the disasters that will befall us in the delay of their construction.--Why so much apathy among your princely merchants and elsewhere? Be not deceived — this contest cannot be carried on without individual sacrifices, and whilst so many can command thousands upon thousands to speculate in sugar, tobacco, cotton, bacon, and salt, do they flatter themselves that others will spend and be spent to protect their property? Again, I say, let them not be deceived. Unless all come up speedily to the work, their property is in danger of being lost, and worse than lost, in the hands of an oppressive tyrant, who is doing all in his power to overrun the land. Delay is indeed dangerous — imminently perlites. We have just raised two volunteer companies in Sullivan county under the last call, and armed them at our expense with Mississippi rifles. A Merchant
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $50 reward. (search)
io Grands. Admiral Teasham had visited Brownsville and sympathizes with our cause. He says his mission is to keep the mouth of the Rio Grands open to the trade of the world, at all hazards. England is reported to have withdrawn from the alliance against Mexico. A fleet of 800 guns is at Vera Crtz expecting to sail immediately for New Orleans and the Southern coast. How the women make powder. We copy a portion of a letter addressed to Lieut. McClung at Knoxville, by a lady in Sullivan county, East Tennessee: "I saw some weeks ago in the Register an article on the Making of saltpetre and that the under houses contained more or less I also learned that the Government was in great need of in order to make powder for our brave boys now in the field. Well, sir, I felt, though I am a woman that it was my duty to do what I could for my country; so having an old house with dry dirt under it, I determined to make a trial. I threw out the ashes in my ash hopper, and had t
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