Author : Lewis Brumfield
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Yadkin County (N.C.)
ISBN :
Alexander Clingman lived in Rowan County, North Carolina and married Elizabeth Kayser. He died in 1803. Descendants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, and elsewhere.
Author : Thomas E. Jeffrey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820320236
Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains is the first book-length biography of one of the most important, colorful, and controversial figures in nineteenth-century American life. A man of enormous intellect and intense ambition whose ultimate goal was nothing less than the presidency, Clingman was a lawyer, entrepreneur, Civil War general, inventor, amateur scientist, explorer, and, as a U.S. congressman and senator, one of the foremost champions of southern rights. Thomas E. Jeffrey's explanation of how a leading advocate of this cause could thrive within an environment where slavery was only a marginal institution provides fresh insights into the political culture of southern Appalachia, the character of the southern rights movement, and the coming of the Civil War.
Author : Marcia D. Phillips
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2022-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1467152900
Shallow Ford, the natural rock path across the Yadkin River, served as the gateway for pioneers to the western North Carolina frontier and as a stage for history. The ford was the site of the Battle of Shallow Ford in the Revolutionary War and Stoneman's Raid during the Civil War. The eye of the needle for General Cornwallis in the Race to the Dan, it was also the silent witness to the Great Wagon Road and the trans-Appalachian migration led by local son Daniel Boone. Bypassed for the last hundred years, Shallow Ford faded from view but remains a landmark of another era. Local historian Marcia D. Phillips recounts the history of a time when safe passage across the river provided the way to reach the American future that lay beyond.
Author : Frances Harding Casstevens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786413003
On November 11, 1862, Brigadier General Thomas Lanier Clingman, despite a lack of formal military training, was named commander of four regiments sent to North Carolina to prevent Federal troops from making further inroads into the state. Clingman has been called one of North Carolina's most colorful and controversial statesmen, but his military career received little attention from his contemporaries and has been practically ignored by later historians. This work determines the effect Clingman's Brigade had on various battles and in various defensive positions. It also corrects falsehoods by providing a more accurate portrayal of Clingman, the brigade, and the problems it faced. Chapters are devoted to Clingman in his civilian life and his military life, battles fought by the brigade, and the four regiments. Appendices include Clingman's two order books (detailing general and specific orders), a roster of his officers, and miscellaneous letters.
Author : Frances H. Casstevens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1476604037
Located in the western piedmont of North Carolina, Yadkin County was hardly a hotbed of rebellion at the start of the Civil War. Many of the 1,200 men from Yadkin who served in the Confederate Army did so with distinction, but a number deserted. Some of these holed up in the Bond School House, and when the militia attempted to arrest them, four were killed and several others were wounded. This is a comprehensive accounting of how the county responded to the Civil War and the effect it had on Yadkin's citizens, civilian and military alike.
Author : Frances H. Casstevens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 143967695X
Author : Lewis Shore Brumfield
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN :
John Williams (1669-1735) was born in Langollen, Wales and immigrated about 1700 to America and settled in Virginia. His descendants lived in Virginia and North Carolina.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Plantation life
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Milton Stampp
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1993
Category : North Carolina
ISBN :
Author : William S. Powell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807867004
The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
