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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , October (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 146 . fight on the Wautauga River , November 10 , 1861 . (search)
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9 : (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of Major R. C. M. Page , Chief of Confederate States artillery , Department of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee , from October , 1864 , to May , 1865 . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sudden death. (search)
Sudden death.
--Rev. Jona. Leslie, an acting justice of the peace in Carter county, Tenn., fell dead from his chair, Monday last.
His disease was of the heart.
He was an aged man, and had been for more than a quarter of a century a minister of the gospel in the Methodist Church.
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Retribution. (search)
From Tennessee. Bristol, Tenn, May 7.
--Johnson and Nelson, on approaching Blountville, were met by a deputation of citizens, who presented them the note of the Committee of Forty-Two.--They responded that if a majority of the meeting did not wish to hear them, they would not inflict a speech upon them.
Whereupon, the vote was again taken upon the question of permitting them to speak.
The meeting was composed of fifteen hundred persons.
Five persons voted to hear them, three of them came up on the train with Johnson and Nelson, and were citizens of Carter county.
Finding such an overwhelming majority against them, they concluded not to speak.
Sullivan county is now a unit for the South.
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of Judge W. P. Hill at Galveston . (search)
Powder mill in Tennessee.
--Mr. A. B. Dodgion, of Carter county, Tennessee, has erected a mill, and will be ready to manufacture powder in a few days.
Plenty of saltpetre is found in the caves in Carter.
A large supply of lead can also be procured in that county.
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military rank. (search)
[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Lynchburg Nov. 12.
Since writing this morning I have gathered the following particulars in relation to the skirmish which took place in Carter county, Tennessee, on Sunday night last between the bridge burners and a reconnoitering party sent out by Col. Clarkson.
The party of Confederates engaged consisted of 21 men under command of Capt. Miller, of the Vicksburg Sharp-Shooters, whose company is now stationed at Manassas.
The Captain obtaine ppears that Gen. or Col. Clarkson, with about 150 men, had previously gone in search of the scoundrels.
The Captain and his party left Bristol about 9 o'clock Sunday evening, and marched in the direction of Elizabeth-town, the county seat of Carter county; he had not proceeded very far before he fell in with Col. Clarkson, under whose orders he subsequently acted, and was detailed, with twenty-one men, to reconnoiter in the neighborhood of Elizabethtown, with orders that in case he should find