Marking Time
Marking Time

Author: Fred Brown

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781572333307

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The roadside historical markers of East Tennessee highlight the fascinating personalities and significant events of a culturally and historically rich region. Forthree years, Knoxville News Sentinel columnist Fred Brown presented the storiesbehind the local markers placed by the Tennessee Historical Commission. He searchedthe highways and back roads of East Tennessee, tracking down markers with directionsthat were sometimes no more specific than ?Highway 11, Greene County.'Arranged by county, the entries link East Tennessee's past and present and highlightthe enormous diversity of the state's history from its prehistoric past through its involvement in World War II. The markers detail bitter struggles with Native Americans in the eighteenth century, but also explain the unique contribution of Cherokee culture and civilization, such as Sequoyah's development of the Cherokee syllabary. Brown commemorates the numerous Civil War sites throughout the region, but he also includes the service of East Tennesseans in later wars. One marker commemorates Kiffin Yates Rockwell, a founding pilot of the Lafayete Escadrille, a famed squadron of aviators in World War I. Another marker details the achievements of Sgt. Elbert L. Kinser of Greene County, who was posthumously decorated for his leadership of a First Marine Division Rifle Platoon on Okinawa.The markers also showcase East Tennessee's unique political history. They tell thestory of the ?lost state? of Franklin in the 1780s and record the region's efforts to secede from the state when Tennessee left the Union in 1861. Brown's narrative also explains the nature of opposing political factions throughout the decades through the biographies of their leaders, such as Elihu Embree, a Quaker abolitionist who founded an antislavery paper in East Tennessee.From the vantage of the armchair or out on the road, Marking Time is a surprisingand engaging trip on the byways of East Tennessee's politics, culture, and history through the stories of the men and women who shaped the state.

History of Greene County, Missouri
History of Greene County, Missouri

Author: Western Historical Company

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-21

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13: 9780893087159

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By: Western Historical Company, Pub. 1883, Reprinted 2018, 1010 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-715-7. Located in the western portion of the Ozark region of the state, Greene County was created in 1833 from Crawford and Wayne Counties. Even though Missouri didn't become an official state until 1821, settlers began showing up in the western side around this time. Many of whom were from the Southern states such as: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. This book is a complete detailed history of the state, the county along the various towns of the time. Numerious individuals are mentioned with clues to their previous residents being discussed through out these various history sections. But the reader will delight in the biographical sketches of some 523 individuals of the county and genealogical data on some 2,000 other families / individuals. These persons were not only from VA, TN, NC, & KY but also had large numbers of settlers from OH, PA, IN, IL, & MO along with lesser quanties from the states of DE, GA, IA, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, VT, WI, & WV. The NEW INDEX for this reprint mentions over 3,000 entries.

Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson

Author: Hans Louis Trefousse

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945707226

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A definitive life of the flawed man who succeeded to the American presidency after Lincoln's assassination and who presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. Historian Hans L. Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader" (LIBRARY JOURNAL). Photos.