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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. | 46 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Chickasaw Indians,
A tribe of the Creek confederacy that formerly inhabited the country along the Mississippi from the borders of the Choctaw domain to the Ohio River, and eastward beyond the Tennessee to the lands of the Cherokees
Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. and Shawnees.
They were warlike, and were the early friends of the English and the inveterate foes of the French, who twice (1736 and 1740) invaded their country under Bienville and De Noailles.
The Chickasaws said they came from west of the Mississippi, under the guardianship of a great dog, with a pole for a guide.
At night they stuck the pole in the ground, and went the way it leaned every morning.
Their dog was drowned in crossing the Mississippi, and after a while their pole, in the interior of Alabama, remained upright, and there they settled.
De Soto passed a winter among them (1540-41), when they numbered 10,000 warriors.
These were reduced to 450 when the French seated themselves in Louisiana.
Wars with th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Soto , Fernando , 1496 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dodge , Richard Irving , 1827 -1895 (search)
Dodge, Richard Irving, 1827-1895
Military officer; born in Huntsville, N. C., May 19, 1827; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1848; served through the Civil War; was commissioned colonel of the 11th Infantry June 26, 1882; retired May 19, 1891.
His publications include The Black Hills; The plain of the Great West; Our wild Indians, etc. He died in Sackett's Harbor, June 18, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas , Stephen Arnold , 1813 -1861 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)