The Fort

The Fort

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 006196963X

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A novel of the Revolutionary War.


Fort Meade, 1849-1900

Fort Meade, 1849-1900

Author: Canter Brown

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780817307639

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A civilian community coalesced at Fort Meade under the pressures of the Billy Bowlegs War of 1855-58. Quickly the village developed as a cattle industry center, which was important to the Confederacy until its destruction in 1864 by homegrown Union forces. In the postwar era the cattle industry revived, and the community prospered. The railroads arrived in the 1880s, bringing new settlers, and the village grew into a town. Among the new settlers were well-to-do English families who brought fox hunts, cricket matches, and lawn tennis to the frontier.