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Emily Donelson of Tennessee
Author | : Pauline Wilcox Burke |
Publsiher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1572331372 |
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Andrew Donelson became the president's private secretary, and Emily assumed the role of White House hostess, filling a void left by the death of Jackson's beloved wife, Rachel, shortly after the election.".
The River Batteries at Fort Donelson
Author | : M. Todd Cathey,Ricky W. Robnett |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476643380 |
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Unprepared for invasion, Tennessee joined the Confederacy in June 1861. The state's long border and three major rivers with northern access made defense difficult. Cutting through critical manufacturing centers, the Cumberland River led directly to the capital city of Nashville. To thwart Federal attack, engineers hastily constructed river batteries as part of the defenses that would come to be known as Fort Donelson, downstream near the town of Dover. Ulysses S. Grant began moving up the rivers in early 1862. In last-minute desperation, two companies of volunteer infantry and a company of light artillerymen were deployed to the hastily constructed batteries. On February 14, they slugged it out with four City-class ironclads and two timber-clads, driving off the gunboats with heavy casualties, while only losing one man. This book details the construction, armament, and battle for the Fort Donelson river batteries.
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Author | : Richard Douglas Spence |
Publsiher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 699 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826504005 |
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This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson. A scion of a pioneering Tennessee family, Donelson was a valued assistant and trusted confidant of the man who defined the Age of Jackson. One of those central but background figures of history, Donelson had a knack for being where important events were happening and knew many of the great figures of the age. As his uncle's secretary, he weathered Old Hickory's tumultuous presidency, including the notorious "Petticoat War." Building his own political career, he served as US chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas, where he struggled against an enigmatic President Sam Houston, British and French intrigues, and the threat of war by Mexico, to achieve annexation. As minister to Prussia, Donelson enjoyed a ringside seat to the revolutions of 1848 and the first attempts at German unification. A firm Unionist in the mold of his uncle, Donelson denounced the secessionists at the Nashville Convention of 1850. He attempted as editor of the Washington Union to reunite the Democratic party, and, when he failed, he was nominated as Millard Fillmore's vice-presidential running mate on the Know-Nothing party ticket in 1856. He lived to see the Civil War wreck the Union he loved, devastate his farms, and take the lives of two of his sons.
Fort Donelson s Legacy
Author | : Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III) |
Publsiher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0870499491 |
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"Fort Donelson's Legacy portrays the tapestry of war and society in the upper southern heartland of Tennessee and Kentucky after the key Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862. Those victories, notes Benjamin Franklin Cooling, could have delivered the decisive blow to the Confederacy in the West and ended the war in that theater. Instead, what followed was terrible devastation and bloodshed that embroiled soldier and civilian alike. Cooling compellingly describes a struggle that was marked not only by the movement of armies and the strategies of generals but also by the rise of guerrilla bands and civil resistance. It was, in part, a war fought for geography - for rivers and railroads and for strategic cities such as Nashville, Louisville, and Chattanooga. But it was also a war for the hearts and minds of the populace ... In exploring the complex terrain of 'total war' that steadily engulfed Tennessee and Kentucky, Cooling draws on a huge array of sources, including official military records and countless diaries and memoirs. He makes considerable use of the words of participants to capture the attitudes and concerns of those on both sides."--Dust jacket.
The Battle of Fort Donelson No Terms but Unconditional Surrender
Author | : James R. Knight |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781614230830 |
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In February 1862, after defeats at Bull Run and at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the Union army was desperate for victory on the eve of its first offensive of the Civil War. The strategy was to penetrate the Southern heartland with support from a new "Brown Water"? navy. In a two-week campaign plagued by rising floodwaters and brutal winter weather, two armies collided in rural Tennessee to fight over two forts that controlled the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. Those intense days set the course of the war in the Western Theater for eighteen months and determined the fates of Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew H. Foote and Albert Sidney Johnston. Historian James R. Knight paints a picture of this crucial but often neglected and misunderstood turning point.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1432 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
ISBN | : OSU:32435070490032 |
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FCC Record
Author | : United States. Federal Communications Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1308 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Telecommunication |
ISBN | : UCAL:C3404640 |
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The Army of Tennessee
Author | : Stanley F. Horn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105010212954 |
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