Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Denny In Captain Allen's Company

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Invalid  Pension File (Source - Fold3) William Denny /Dennie was a member of Captain Allen's company of  Mounted gunmen  in  Ge...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Arrest Of Captain Thomas Spencer

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From the "Letters Received..." file of George W. Sevier (Tenn.), a letter postmarked from Fort Hampton, dated 2 April 1811: ...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Jacob Graves

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At the time of the correspondence noted below, soldier was living in Tippah County, Mississippi Source - Fold3  War of 1812 Pension...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Campaigns Of The War Of 1812 (Southwest)

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Dinner At The Bell Tavern

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Source -  A Tavern In The South "The volunteers returned from a campaign in May 1814, and a dinner was given at the Bell Tavern ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

George Duffield, Aide-De-Camp...

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...to General Nathaniel Taylor  : Source George Duffield's widow, whose pension application is shown above, was Sally (Carter...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

General Nathaniel Taylor

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Source General Taylor was born on 24 February 1771, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, though the family moved to the Watauga settlement ...
Monday, September 21, 2015

A Court Martial Of Dr. Backus

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Assistant Apothecary Christopher Backus was appointed 12 August 1814. Reference to his court martial was found in  Letters Received By ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

August Near Horseshoe Bend

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Encampment At Horseshoe Bend On The Tallapoosa River Smith College Studies in History, Volumes 7-8 , included Major Tatum's Jou...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Honoring Sequoyah (George Guess)

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Source War of 1812 Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files [NARA] for George Guess (Sequoyah): Source
Monday, June 15, 2015

Jacob Graves

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Source WAR OF 1812 State of Mississippi County of Tippah 22 April 1878 Elizabeth Graves, Age 73 Widow Of Jacob Graves Pri...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Jackson Quelled A Mutiny

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

John Brisby

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War of 1812 Pension And Bounty Land Application  - Fold3 Form Of Declaration For Surviving Officer Or Soldier State of Tennessee Cou...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Uriah Alison

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Sunday, May 17, 2015

William Trousdale's First Wars

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The William Trousdale Papers held at the Tennessee State Library and Archives: "This collection is centered around William Trousd...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Captain Richard Alexander's Papers

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The  Alexander Family Papers  are housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives  and are focused on Richard Alexander (ca.1786-ca. 185...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Jackson At The Battle Of Emuckfau

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Source  - Page 197 22 January 1814  From The History of Tennessee ...: "In the afternoon of the 21st the army fell in wi...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Old William Jack Haines

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Source Haines, William Jack, aged 110 years.  (Penna. Society) Memorial Home, St. Louis, Mo. Private Served in Captain Gregory...
Monday, December 8, 2014

William Gray Simms

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Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine, Volumes 1-2 : William Gray Simms was born in 1795 and died in 1867. ...
Friday, October 10, 2014

James D. Craig's Scrapbook

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Source  [Scrapbook Excerpt] James D. Craig's scrapbook  (1814-1815) is housed at the  Alabama Dept. of Archives and History  in ...