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Book Synopsis First Families of Tennessee by : East Tennessee Historical Society
Download or read book First Families of Tennessee written by East Tennessee Historical Society and published by East Tenn Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Families of Tennessee is a tribute to these men and women who established the state.
Book Synopsis First Families of Tennessee by : East Tennessee Historical Society
Download or read book First Families of Tennessee written by East Tennessee Historical Society and published by East Tenn Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Families of Tennessee is a tribute to these men and women who established the state.
Book Synopsis First Families of Tennessee by : East Tennessee Historical Society
Download or read book First Families of Tennessee written by East Tennessee Historical Society and published by East Tenn Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Families of Tennessee is a tribute to these men and women who established the state.
Book Synopsis First Families of Tennessee by : East Tennessee Historical Society
Download or read book First Families of Tennessee written by East Tennessee Historical Society and published by East Tenn Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Families of Tennessee is a tribute to these men and women who established the state.
Book Synopsis America's First Families by : Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Download or read book America's First Families written by Carl Sferrazza Anthony and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the bicentennial of the White House, this lavishly illustrated, delightfully accessible book describes the everyday lives of America's "royal families" in the White House, from John and Abigail Adams in 1800 to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Index. 300 photos.
Book Synopsis Tennessee Cousins by : Worth Stickley Ray
Download or read book Tennessee Cousins written by Worth Stickley Ray and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief family histories of people who lived in Tennessee in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Book Synopsis James Robertson, Father of Tennessee and Founder of Nashville by : Bill Bays
Download or read book James Robertson, Father of Tennessee and Founder of Nashville written by Bill Bays and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of America’s first western frontier, when brave men and women crossed the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains to find better lives for themselves and their families. James Robertson led the first group of settlers over the mountains and founded the first white settlement in what would later become East Tennessee. But they were not alone. Centuries earlier, the Cherokees came from the north, conquered the local tribes, and settled there. In the year before the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, British Indian agents began inciting the Cherokees, Shawnees, and other western tribes. The frontiersmen mobilized their militias and eventually defeated the Cherokees. Afterward, James Robertson was appointed Indian Agent to keep the peace. In 1779, Robertson entered into an agreement with Richard Henderson and John Donelson to settle the area around the French Lick, which would later become Nashville. After their arrival in 1780, Indian attacks soon commenced. Using large-scale attacks and small ambushes, the protracted war against the settlers lasted for fifteen years. Richard Henderson fled, and John Donelson was killed. James Robertson’s determination and steadfast leadership was the glue that kept the infant settlement together. George Washington appreciated Robertson’s leadership and appointed him Brigadier General of the Western Militia. Andrew Jackson’s military training began as a private serving in General Robertson’s militia. Jackson learned well, and years later replaced Robertson after his retirement. Boone, Clark, Sevier, Shelby, Blount and Bledsoe were other western leaders who trusted James Robertson. James Robertson’s long military and civic career began before the American Revolution and ended after the Battle of Talladega during the War of 1812. He was a brave, intelligent and patriotic leader who believed in Manifest Destiny and founded Nashville, the nation’s westernmost settlement of that era.
Book Synopsis Tennessee Land Grants by : Barbara Byron
Download or read book Tennessee Land Grants written by Barbara Byron and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before and After written by Judy Christie and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents—hiding the fact that many weren’t orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Christie and Wingate tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, many of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. Advance praise for Before and After “In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate’s blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. With a journalist’s keen eye and a novelist’s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book.”—Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphan’s Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris
Book Synopsis Early History of Middle Tennessee by : Edward Albright
Download or read book Early History of Middle Tennessee written by Edward Albright and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation by : John Baker
Download or read book The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation written by John Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's thirty-year research into his slave ancestry, describing the history of the massive tobacco plantation where his ancestors worked and his family's extensive genealogical legacy, in an account complemented by dozens of rare photographs. 50,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Companions of Champlain by : Denise R. Larson
Download or read book Companions of Champlain written by Denise R. Larson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
Book Synopsis History of Fentress County, Tennessee by : Albert Ross Hogue
Download or read book History of Fentress County, Tennessee written by Albert Ross Hogue and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Southern Woman "within the Lines," and a Genealogical Record by : Mrs. Mary Jones Polk Branch
Download or read book Memoirs of a Southern Woman "within the Lines," and a Genealogical Record written by Mrs. Mary Jones Polk Branch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jones Polk was born in Tennessee, the daughter of Dr. William Julius Polk and Mary Rebecca Long Polk. Her parents were married at Mt. Gallant, in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1814 or 1818. They moved to Columbia, Tennessee, in 1828 or 1834, making their home on a plantation near town. She married Col. Joseph Branch in 1859 at Columbia. He was a widower with two sons. They had four children. They lived on his plantation near Helena, Arkansas, until after the Civil War when they moved to the plantation she inherited from her father in Tennessee. She tells of life in the south, before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. Her husband was murdered when he returned to his plantation in Arkansas on business in 1867.
Book Synopsis Ancestors and Descendants by : Elton E. Vrede
Download or read book Ancestors and Descendants written by Elton E. Vrede and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the genealogy of two Virgin Islands families. The surnames are Daniel and Wallace. It also presents the genealogy of extended families. Along with the genealogy there are short stories about special people and events.
Book Synopsis Homegrown Yankees by : James Alex Baggett
Download or read book Homegrown Yankees written by James Alex Baggett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in 1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees into Kentucky. These refugees formed Tennessee's first Union cavalry regiments during early 1862, followed shortly thereafter by others organized in Union-occupied Middle and West Tennessee. In Homegrown Yankees, the first book-length study of Union cavalry from a Confederate state, James Alex Baggett tells the remarkable story of Tennessee's loyal mounted regiments. Fourteen mounted regiments that fought primarily within the boundaries of the state and eight local units made up Tennessee's Union cavalry. Young, nonslaveholding farmers who opposed secession, the Confederacy, and the war -- from isolated villages east of Knoxville, the Cumberland Mountains, or the Tennessee River counties in the west -- filled the ranks. Most Tennesseans denounced these local bluecoats as renegades, turncoats, and Tories; accused them of betraying their people, their section, and their race; and held them in greater contempt than soldiers from the North. Though these homegrown Yankees participated in many battles -- including those in the Stones River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, East Tennessee, Nashville, and Atlanta campaigns -- their story provides rare insights into what occurred between the battles. For them, military action primarily meant almost endless skirmishing with partisans, guerrillas, and bushwackers, as well as with the Rebel raiders of John Hunt Morgan, Joseph Wheeler, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, who frequently recruited and supplied themselves from behind enemy lines. Tennessee's Union cavalry scouted and foraged the countryside, guarded outposts and railroads, acted as couriers, supported the flanks of infantry, and raided the enemy. On occasion, especially during the Nashville campaign, they provided rapid pursuit of Confederate forces. They also helped protect fellow unionists from an aggressive pro-Confederate insurgency after 1862. Baggett vividly describes the deprivation, sickness, and loneliness of cavalrymen living on the war's periphery and traces how circumstances beyond their control -- such as terrain, transport, equipage, weaponry, public sentiment, and military policy -- affected their lives. He also explores their well-earned reputation for plundering -- misdeeds motivated by revenge, resentment, a lack of discipline, and the hard-war policy of the Union army. In the never-before-told story of these cavalrymen, Homegrown Yankees offers new insights into an unexplored facet of southern Unionism and provides an exciting new perspective on the Civil War in Tennessee.
Book Synopsis The Prince of Tennessee by : David Maraniss
Download or read book The Prince of Tennessee written by David Maraniss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Al Gore.
