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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 18 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 15 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 46: (search)
r west. From these eye-witnesses he received glowing Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Nov. accounts of the climate, soil, good streams and plentiful game that distinguished the valley of the Cumberland. There he was persuaded a new and most desirable Government might be established. Dr. Conolly in Washington, II. 533. At that time Daniel Boon was still exploring the land of promise. Boon's Autobiography. Of forty adventurers who from the Clinch River plunged into the West under the lead of James Knox, and became renowned as the Long Hunters, Monette's Valley, i. 355; Butler's Kentucky, 18, 19. some found their way down the Cumberland to the limestone Bluff, where Nashville stands, and where the luxuriant, gently undulating fields, covered with groves of beech and walnut, were in the undisputed possession of countless buffaloes, whose bellowings resounded from hill and forest. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 105. Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 77. Sometimes