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Pere Jacques Marquette (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
he Southern United States, lies between the Alleghany Mountains on the east and the Mississippi River on the west. It is bounded on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, east by North Carolina, south by Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and west by Arkansas and Missouri. It lies between lat. 35° and 36° 35′ N., and long. 81° 37′ and 90° 15′ W. Area, 42,050 square miles, in ninety-six counties. Population in 1890, 1,767,518; 1900, 2,020,616. Capital, Nashville. Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi River to lat. 33°......1673 Robert Cavalier de La Salle builds Fort Prud'homme on the fourth Chickasaw bluff of the Mississippi River......1682 M. Charleville, a French trader, builds a trading-house near the present site of Nashville......1714 French erect Fort Assumption on the Mississippi at the fourth Chickasaw bluff......1714 Bienville makes a treaty of peace with the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Assumption......June, 1739 Party of Virgini
Cave Johnson (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
s for the Florida War......1837 Felix Grundy appointed Attorney-General......July 5, 1838 National Whig Convention meets at Nashville......Aug. 17, 1840 State hospital for the insane opened near Nashville......1840 John Bell appointed Secretary of War......March 5, 1841 Cumberland University at Lebanon chartered and opened......1842 National Whig Convention held at Nashville......Aug. 21, 1844 James K. Polk elected President of the United States......Nov. 12, 1844 Cave Johnson appointed Postmaster-General......March 6, 1845 Act for self-taxation of districts for common schools......1845 Andrew Jackson dies at the Hermitage, aged seventy-eight......June 8, 1845 James K. Polk dies at Nashville, aged fifty-four......June 15, 1849 Memphis incorporated as a city......December, 1849 Southern convention meets at Nashville......June 3, 1850 Convention meets at Nashville, Nov. 11, 1850, and adjourns after recommending a congress of slave-holding States
Thomas Walker (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
e descend the Mississippi River to lat. 33°......1673 Robert Cavalier de La Salle builds Fort Prud'homme on the fourth Chickasaw bluff of the Mississippi River......1682 M. Charleville, a French trader, builds a trading-house near the present site of Nashville......1714 French erect Fort Assumption on the Mississippi at the fourth Chickasaw bluff......1714 Bienville makes a treaty of peace with the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Assumption......June, 1739 Party of Virginians, Dr. Thomas Walker and others; discover the Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Gap, and Cumberland River......1748 Fort Loudon founded about 30 miles from the present Knoxville......1856 Colonel Bird builds Long Island Fort on the Holston River, where the American army winters......1758 Cherokees capture Fort Loudon. The garrison, after the surrender, start out for Fort Prince George; after proceeding about 15 miles they are massacred by the Indians......Aug. 7, 1760 Capt. James Smith and othe
John Hunt Morgan (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
lonel Garrard at Rogersville......Nov. 6, 1863 Longstreet besieges Knoxville and is repulsed......Nov. 17, 1863 Grant defeats Bragg in battle of Chattanooga.......Nov. 23-25, 1863 Longstreet repulses Federals under Gen. J. M. Shackelford at Bean's Station, east Tennessee......Dec. 14, 1863 Fort Pillow captured by Confederates under Gen. N. B. Forrest, and garrison of colored troops annihilated......April 12, 1864 Federals under Gen. A. C. Gillem surprise the Confederate Gen. John H. Morgan at the house of a Mrs. Williams in Greeneville, east Tennessee. In attempting to escape he is killed......Sept. 4, 1864 Federals under Schofield repulse Confederates under Hood at Franklin......Nov. 30, 1864 Federals retire from Franklin and occupy Nashville Dec. 1; Hood advances and partially invests Nashville......Dec. 3-14, 1864 Thomas defeats Hood at Nashville......Dec. 15-16, 1864 Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery framed by a convention which sits at Nashvi
Cavalier La (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
he Mississippi River on the west. It is bounded on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, east by North Carolina, south by Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and west by Arkansas and Missouri. It lies between lat. 35° and 36° 35′ N., and long. 81° 37′ and 90° 15′ W. Area, 42,050 square miles, in ninety-six counties. Population in 1890, 1,767,518; 1900, 2,020,616. Capital, Nashville. Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi River to lat. 33°......1673 Robert Cavalier de La Salle builds Fort Prud'homme on the fourth Chickasaw bluff of the Mississippi River......1682 M. Charleville, a French trader, builds a trading-house near the present site of Nashville......1714 French erect Fort Assumption on the Mississippi at the fourth Chickasaw bluff......1714 Bienville makes a treaty of peace with the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Assumption......June, 1739 Party of Virginians, Dr. Thomas Walker and others; discover the Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland
Lloyd Tilghman (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
ity vote of the State favors a declaration of independence for Tennessee and the acceptance of the provisional government of the Confederate States......June 8, 1861 Eastern Tennessee Union convention at Greeneville declares its opposition to the Confederate government......June 21, 1861 Governor Harris proclaims Tennessee out of the Union......June 24, 1861 Confederate commissary and ordnance stores at Nashville destroyed by fire......Dec. 22, 1861 Commodore Foote defeats Gen. Lloyd Tilghman and captures Fort Henry......Feb. 6, 1862 Bombardment of Fort Donelson begins Feb. 13; fort surrendered to General Grant by General Buckner, with 13,829 prisoners......Feb. 16, 1862 Seat of government removed to Memphis......Feb. 20, 1862 Confederates evacuate Nashville, and the Federals under Nelson enter......Feb. 23, 1862 Andrew Johnson, commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers and appointed military governor of Tennessee, March 5, arrives at Nashville......March 12
W. E. Jones (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
63 Kingston and Knoxville, evacuated by Confederates under Gen. Simon B. Buckner, occupied by Federal troops under Gen. A. E. Burnside......Sept. 1, 1863 Chattanooga abandoned by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg, Sept. 8; Cumberland Gap surrendered to Federals......Sept. 9, 1863 Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet defeat Federals at Philadelphia, east Tennessee......Oct. 20, 1863 General Grant arrives at Nashville, Oct. 21, and at Chattanooga......Oct. 23, 1863 Gen. W. E. Jones, Confederate, defeats Colonel Garrard at Rogersville......Nov. 6, 1863 Longstreet besieges Knoxville and is repulsed......Nov. 17, 1863 Grant defeats Bragg in battle of Chattanooga.......Nov. 23-25, 1863 Longstreet repulses Federals under Gen. J. M. Shackelford at Bean's Station, east Tennessee......Dec. 14, 1863 Fort Pillow captured by Confederates under Gen. N. B. Forrest, and garrison of colored troops annihilated......April 12, 1864 Federals under Gen. A. C. Gillem su
Celeron De Bienville (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
ix counties. Population in 1890, 1,767,518; 1900, 2,020,616. Capital, Nashville. Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi River to lat. 33°......1673 Robert Cavalier de La Salle builds Fort Prud'homme on the fourth Chickasaw bluff of the Mississippi River......1682 M. Charleville, a French trader, builds a trading-house near the present site of Nashville......1714 French erect Fort Assumption on the Mississippi at the fourth Chickasaw bluff......1714 Bienville makes a treaty of peace with the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Assumption......June, 1739 Party of Virginians, Dr. Thomas Walker and others; discover the Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Gap, and Cumberland River......1748 Fort Loudon founded about 30 miles from the present Knoxville......1856 Colonel Bird builds Long Island Fort on the Holston River, where the American army winters......1758 Cherokees capture Fort Loudon. The garrison, after the surrender, start out for Fort Prin
J. M. Schofield (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
ttanooga.......Nov. 23-25, 1863 Longstreet repulses Federals under Gen. J. M. Shackelford at Bean's Station, east Tennessee......Dec. 14, 1863 Fort Pillow captured by Confederates under Gen. N. B. Forrest, and garrison of colored troops annihilated......April 12, 1864 Federals under Gen. A. C. Gillem surprise the Confederate Gen. John H. Morgan at the house of a Mrs. Williams in Greeneville, east Tennessee. In attempting to escape he is killed......Sept. 4, 1864 Federals under Schofield repulse Confederates under Hood at Franklin......Nov. 30, 1864 Federals retire from Franklin and occupy Nashville Dec. 1; Hood advances and partially invests Nashville......Dec. 3-14, 1864 Thomas defeats Hood at Nashville......Dec. 15-16, 1864 Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery framed by a convention which sits at Nashville, Jan. 9 to Jan. 26, 1865, ratified by a vote of the people, 21,104 to 40......Feb. 22, 1865 Legislature ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment......Apri
James Campbell (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-tennessee
at the Hermitage, aged seventy-eight......June 8, 1845 James K. Polk dies at Nashville, aged fifty-four......June 15, 1849 Memphis incorporated as a city......December, 1849 Southern convention meets at Nashville......June 3, 1850 Convention meets at Nashville, Nov. 11, 1850, and adjourns after recommending a congress of slave-holding States by a vote of six States—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia, opposed to Tennessee......Nov. 19, 1850 James Campbell appointed Postmaster-General......March 5, 1853 Southern convention meets at Memphis......June 6, 1853 State agricultural bureau established......1854 State capitol, commenced in 1845, completed......1855 Aaron V. Brown appointed Postmaster-General......March 6, 1857 Memphis and Charleston Railroad completed, joining the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River......March 27, 1857 Southern commercial convention at. Knoxville, by vote of 64 to 27, recommends abrogation
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