Bicentennial Echoes of the History of Overton County, Tennessee, 1776-1976
Author : Robert L. Eldridge
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Overton County (Tenn.)
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Author : Robert L. Eldridge
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Overton County (Tenn.)
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Author : Michael Birdwell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2004-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813123097
Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars uncover fascinating stories and personalities from the Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, but seen here as having a far richer history and culture than previously thought.
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Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
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ISBN : 1418562130
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1686 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
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Author : Brian D. McKnight
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0807137693
In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the Confederacy, Ferguson has often been dismissed by historians as a cold-blooded killer. In Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia, biographer Brian D. McKnight demonstrates how such a simple judgment ignores the complexity of this legendary character. In his analysis, McKnight maintains that Ferguson fought the war on personal terms and with an Old Testament mentality regarding the righteousness of his cause. He believed that friends were friends and enemies were enemies—no middle ground existed. As a result, he killed prewar comrades as well as longtime adversaries without regret, all the while knowing that he might one day face his own brother, who served as a Union scout. Ferguson’s continued popularity demonstrates that his bloody legend did not die on the gallows. Widespread rumors endured of his last-minute escape from justice, and over time, the borderland terrorist emerged as a folk hero for many southerners. Numerous authors resurrected and romanticized his story for popular audiences, and even Hollywood used Ferguson’s life to create the composite role played by Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales. McKnight’s study deftly separates the myths from reality and weaves a thoughtful, captivating, and accurate portrait of the Confederacy’s most celebrated guerrilla. An impeccably researched biography, Confederate Outlaw offers an abundance of insight into Ferguson’s wartime motivations, actions, and tactics, and also describes borderland loyalties, guerrilla operations, and military retribution. McKnight concludes that Ferguson, and other irregular warriors operating during the Civil War, saw the conflict as far more of a personal battle than a political one.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 1976-07
Category : American literature
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1988
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A genealogy and a history of the Jennings family in America who are descendants of Charles Lawson Jinings born about 1752-55 and died 5 Sep 1835 probably in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Bonafield.
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Genealogy
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Botany
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
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