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Book The Cherokees

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grace Steele Woodward
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN : 9780806118154
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Cherokees written by Grace Steele Woodward and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a syllabary and developed an intricate government, including a system of courts of law. They published their own newspaper in both Cherokee and English and became noted as orators and statesmen. At the beginning the Cherokees’ conquest of civilization was agonizingly slow and uncertain. Warlords of the southern Appalachian Highlands, they were loath to expend their energies elsewhere. In the words of a British officer, "They are like the Devil’s pigg, they will neither lead nor drive." But, led or driven, the warlike and willful Cherokees, lingering in the Stone Age by choice at the turn of the eighteenth century, were forced by circumstances to transfer their concentration on war to problems posed by the white man. To cope with these unwelcome problems, they had to turn from the conquests of war to the conquest of civilization.

Book Historical Handbook Series

Download or read book Historical Handbook Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Industrial Park and River Port  Hamilton County

Download or read book Industrial Park and River Port Hamilton County written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Education

Download or read book Social Education written by Erling Messer Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews".

Book Engineers on the Twin Rivers

Download or read book Engineers on the Twin Rivers written by Leland R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army of the Heartland

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  • Author : Thomas Lawrence Connelly
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2001-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780807127377
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Army of the Heartland written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Autumn of Glory Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the Confederacy rested with two great military forces. One of these armies defended the “heartland” of the Confederacy—a vital area which embraced the state of Tennessee and large portions of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Kentucky. This is the story of that army—the first detailed study to be based upon research in manuscript collections and the first to explore the military significance of the heartland. The Army of Tennessee faced problems and obstacles far more staggering than any encountered by the other great Confederate force. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Lee’s army was charged with the defense of an area considerably smaller in size. And while Lee’s line of defense extended only about 125 miles, the front defended by the Army of Tennessee stretched for some 400 miles. Yet the Army of the Heartland has heretofore been given relatively slight attention by historians. With this volume Thomas Lawrence Connelly, a native Tennessean, has brought Confederate military history more nearly into balance. Throughout the war the Army of Tennessee was plagued by ineffective leadership. There were personality conflicts between commanding generals and corps commanders and breakdowns in communications with the Confederate government at Richmond. Lacking the leadership of a Lee, the Army of Tennessee failed to attain a real esprit at the corps level. Instead, the common soldiers, sensing the quarrelsome nature of their leaders, developed at regimental and brigade levels their own peculiar brand of morale which sustained them through continuous defeats. Connelly analyzes the influence and impact of each successive commander of the Army. His conclusions regarding Confederate command and leadership are not the conventional ones.

Book John Ross  Cherokee Chief

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  • Author : Gary E. Moulton
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 1978-10-01
  • ISBN : 0820323675
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book John Ross Cherokee Chief written by Gary E. Moulton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1978-10-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of Chief John Ross of the Cherokees using Ross' personal papers and Cherokee archives as sources.

Book Homegrown Yankees

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  • Author : James Alex Baggett
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2009-06-01
  • ISBN : 0807142522
  • Pages : 970 pages

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 970 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 An Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority

Download or read book An Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walnut St Bridge Replacement  Chattanooga

Download or read book Walnut St Bridge Replacement Chattanooga written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority  Cumulative Supplement

Download or read book Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority Cumulative Supplement written by Tennessee Valley Authority and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chronicles of Oklahoma

Download or read book Chronicles of Oklahoma written by James Shannon Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority

Download or read book Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Library and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This supplement to the bibliography covers the magazine and journal articles published during the period January 1951 - December 1952.

Book Toward the Setting Sun

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  • Author : Brian Hicks
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-01-04
  • ISBN : 0802195997
  • Pages : 573 pages

Download or read book Toward the Setting Sun written by Brian Hicks and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly). Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the nineteenth century forced removal of Native Americans from their lands—through the story of Chief John Ross, who came to be known as the Cherokee Moses. Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee woman, Ross was educated in white schools and was only one-eighth Indian by blood. But as Cherokee chief in the mid-nineteenth century, he would guide the tribe through its most turbulent period. The Cherokees’ plight lay at the epicenter of nearly all the key issues facing America at the time: western expansion, states’ rights, judicial power, and racial discrimination. Clashes between Ross and President Andrew Jackson raged from battlefields and meeting houses to the White House and Supreme Court. As whites settled illegally on the Nation’s land, the chief steadfastly refused to sign a removal treaty. But when a group of renegade Cherokees betrayed their chief and negotiated their own agreement, Ross was forced to lead his people west. In one of America’s great tragedies, thousands died during the Cherokees’ migration on the Trail of Tears. “Powerful and engaging . . . By focusing on the Ross family, Hicks brings narrative energy and original insight to a grim and important chapter of American life.” —Jon Meacham

Book The Cherokee People

Download or read book The Cherokee People written by Thomas E. Mails and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts the Cherokees' ancient culture and lifestyle, their government, dress, and family life. Mails chronicles the fundamentals of vital Cherokee spiritual beliefs and practices, their powerful rituals, and their joyful festivals, as well as the story of the gradual encroachment that all but destroyed their civilization.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1952 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1A: Books