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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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he necessity of reinforcing the Southern forts, Doc. 11; speech at Detroit, April 24, Doc. 145 Castle Pinckney, S. C., taken possession of by rebels, D. 7; Commander Pettigru at, D. 8 Castleton, Vt., Union Meeting at, D. 45 Catawba Indians. See Indians. Catholics of the South refuse fellowship with those of the North, D. 97 C. Colden Murray, the bark, D. 17 Chapin, E. H., D. D., P, 62 Charleston Courier; its opinion of the rebellion, P. 149 CharlesIndians. Catholics of the South refuse fellowship with those of the North, D. 97 C. Colden Murray, the bark, D. 17 Chapin, E. H., D. D., P, 62 Charleston Courier; its opinion of the rebellion, P. 149 Charleston Mercury threatens to take the forts, D. 4; discusses sea-coast defences, D. 4; suggests the seizure of forts, D. 10; urges an attack on Fort Sumter D. 16; strictures on the policy of the Federal Government, D. 21; request to the captains of Confederate ships, D. 39 Charleston, S. C., people of, refuse to allow Federal soldiers to be sent to the forts, D. 3; act of secession signed at, D. 4; palmetto flags raised in, D. 7; forts at, seized, D. 7; orders in reference to the clearance of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Catawba Indians, (search)
Catawba Indians, One of the eight Indian nations of North America discovered by the Europeans in the seventeenth century, when they had 1,500 warriors. They occupied the region between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers, on each side of the boundary-line between North and South Carolina. They were southward of the Tuscaroras, and were generally on good terms with them. They were brave, but not warlike, and generally acted on the defensive. In 1672 they expelled the fugitive Shawnees; but their country was desolated by bands of the Five Nations in 1701. They assisted the Carolinians against the Tuscaroras and their confederates in 1711; but four years afterwards they joined the powerful league of the Southern Indians in endeavors to extirpate the white people. A long and virulent war was carried on between them and the Iroquois. The English endeavored to bring peace between them, and succeeded. When, in 1751, William Bull, commissioner for South Carolina, attended a convention