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Every Day In Tennessee History (abbreviated as E.D.I.T.H.) was created by James B. Jones, Jr., Public Historian for the Tennessee Historical Commission. It was published in book form in 1996. (The book is out of print, although a few mint copies are available for collectors.) Its content has enlaraged and is now manifested as the web site (www.SouthernHistory.net, or abbreviated “shnet.”) you are currently visiting. Submissions are welcome. There are some things all visitors to “shnet” should keep in mind so that the sticky issues of plagiarism and law suits can be avoided. If any entry has a byline and/or copyright symbol (©) and the visitor wishes to use it in a speech, article, report, term paper, or book, it must be cited in a footnote or endnote or in parentheses with the author’s name, the article’s title, and the website it was taken from. For example “The War of Jenkins' Ear,” By Julie Anne Sweet” should be followed by the attribution “as cited in www.southernhistory.net” so it reads:

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Documents demonstrating resistance to the Tennessee Draft in December 1861.

Posted by: James on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 08:01 PM
 


Note: Gov. Harris was compelled to keep his room at the St. Cloud up to the time my informant left, under strong guard, for fear of assassination by the incensed people. He had received many anonymous letters threatening his life. Col. Henry Calibourne, of the militia, was also afraid to show his head o­n the streets.

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Report on Confederate “Reign of Terror” in Mississippi and Alabama

Posted by: James on Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 10:10 PM
 




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“Their pay is not sufficient to furnish their families.” A call to rich planters to furnish slave labor to help poor white soldiers stationed at Fort Donelson to bring in their crops

Posted by: James on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 10:10 PM
 




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Articles on Tennessee History, Fall 2002

Posted by: James on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 07:57 PM
 




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The Fall of Nashville: The Eyewitness Account of Dr. John Berrien Lindsley, February 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 1862

Posted by: James on Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 12:50 AM
 




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The fate of prostitutes in Memphis

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The Execution of John Williams in Nashville

Posted by: James on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 02:44 PM
 


Note: "At 9:30 o'clock this morning he was baptized in a creek near the jail by the colored clergyman. The ceremony was witnessed by a large crowd, which thronged both banks of the stream. As he came out of the water Williams shouted and jumped about so much that it was with the greatest difficulty that the Sheriff and several guards held him."

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Tennessee Coal Mine Wars. By James B. Jones Jr.,

Posted by: James on Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 10:52 PM
 




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McCampbell House. State Rep. Ben West Jr. and Metro Councilman James Bruce Stanley

Posted by: James on Friday, October 30, 2009 - 04:40 PM
 




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ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE WAKE COUNTY WORKINGMEN'S ASSOCIATION

Posted by: James on Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 02:29 AM
 




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