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- 1663, First serious recorded slave revolt in colonial America in Gloucester County, Virginia.
- 1671, Charleston, S.C. in 1671
- 1739, Stono Slave Rebellion, September 9, 1739
- 1739, Book Review of Mark M. Smith, ed. “Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt” By Diane Mutti Burke.
- 1745, John Sevier was born.
- 1762, Some advertisements from the South Carolina Gazette, September 18, 1762
- 1768, Edmund Fanning (1737-1808) and the Regulators. By Arthur Steinberg,
- 1777, Grundy born
- 1780, Overmountain men move over the mountain to see the other side of the mountain
- 1789, Thomas Jefferson and historical self-construction: the earth belongs to the living? By Robert M.S. McDonald
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Today in history
- 1836, Talk of Mutiny
- 1861, Negro workers march through Memphis
- 1862, The fate of prostitutes in Memphis
- 1862, Skirmish near Nashville
- 1862, Skirmish near Memphis
- 1862, U.S. Army needs assessment for West Tennessee
- 1863, Federals take possession of Williams’ Island
- 1863, Major-General A. Burnside occupies Kingston
- 1863, Letter from Captain R. S. Van Dyke [CSA] to Lieutenant John A. Turly relative to action to be taken in the event of Federal advancements in McMinn County
- 1863, A Bolivar schoolgirl’s worries about the Confederacy
- 1863, Destruction of Loudon Bridge by Confederates
- 1863, “The Civil Commission.”
- 1863, “Fiendish Outrage in South Memphis. An Attempt to Assassinate an Old Citizen.”
- 1863, Operations of the First Division, U.S. Army, Chattanooga environs
- 1863, The junction of the Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama state lines, salt petre mines, picket, potatoes, pies and chickens; Bliss Morse’s letter home from Shellmound, Tennessee
- 1863, Nathan Bedford Forrest destroys his own wagon train
- 1863, Daily Federal scouts between Sulphur Springs, above Washington, and Thatcher’s Ferry, below Sale Creek
- 1863, Report of Federal scout to Trenton, Humboldt environs in search of a Confederate conscript camp
- 1863, Cavalry scout in Saulsbury environs
- 1863, Scout from Smith’s Cross-Roads to Kingston
- 1864, Skirmishes at and near Union City, Tenn
- 1864, Scout from Whitesides to Sulphur Springs, GA
- 1864, Death of Confederate General John Herbert Kelley and skirmish at Franklin
- 1864, Skirmishes on the N&C Railroad
- 1885, African-American militia unit
- 1896, Edith Wilson
- 1921, Mine owners bomb striking West Virginia miners by plane.
- 1935, Memorial Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the 1935 "Labor Day Hurricane." By Irving R. Eyster
- 1962, Death of York
- 2001, Review of: Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America
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Posted by: James on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 08:01 PM
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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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Posted by: James on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 02:44 PM
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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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