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- 1609, Starving Time. By John Smith
- 1687, TONKAWA INDIANS. By Jeffrey D. Carlisle
- 1699, Pierre LeMoyne Sieur d'Iberville and the Establishment of Biloxi
- 1773, Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah, Georgia. By Karen Bell
- 1778, Slavery in Revolutionary Georgia. By Timothy J. Lockley
- 1781, The Battle of Cowpens. By: Scott Withrow, Park Ranger
- 1781, A slave for every soldier: The strange history of Virginia's forgotten Recruitment Act of 1 January 1781, by L Scott Philyaw
- 1781, First recorded birth of a white child in Middle Tennessee.
- 1782, KNOXVILLE IN THE OLDEN TIME. By Edmund Kirke
- 1784, Martin Scheider's travels in East TN
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Today in history
- 1699, Pierre LeMoyne Sieur d'Iberville and the Establishment of Biloxi
- 1862, Effect of the war in Cleveland, TN
- 1862, “I am gratified to hear that the thirty-nine caught in the mountains are dying.” Confederate conscription in East Tennessee.
- 1863, The saga of Bill and Mollie
- 1863, Affair near Germantown
- 1863, A Methodist circuit rider’s encounter with a Confederate picket on the road to Woodbury
- 1863, Federal man power shortages to be alleviated by GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6, allowing the hire of citizens and slaves as teamsters, laborers and hospital attendants in Murfreesborough
- 1863, An Illinois Volunteer Sergeant’s thinking about the Emancipation Proclamation
- 1864, "Awake to duty."
- 1864, Major-General W. T. Sherman’s advice to Brigadier-General R. P. Buckland concerning the governance of Memphis
- 1864, “They Stole the Child Away.”
- 1864, “A Salt and Battery”
- 1864, Engagement, Fair Garden
- 1864, Skirmish at Kelley’s Ford
- 1864, Patrols from La Grange and Collierville to Coldwater, MS, and patrols from Germantown to Olive Branch, MS
- 1864, Engagement at Middle Fork of Pigeon River at Hodsden's House
- 1864, Skirmish at McNutt's Bridge
- 1864, Skirmish near Knxoville
- 1864, Patrols from La Grange and Collierville to Mississippi
- 1865, Explosion of steamer transport Eclipse at Johnsonville, and loss of 27 killed, 78 injured
- 1865, Skirmish at Elrod's Tan-yard, De Kalb County, Ala.
- 1930, Bobby Blue Bland
- 1954, Knoxville native Joseph Wood Krutch wins book award
- 1957, R. L. Crenshaw sentenced to death
- 1957, Estes Kefauver
- 2004, Daniel Henry Chamberlain. By William C. Hine
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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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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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