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Category Archives: Feuds & Rivalries
Battle of the Wilderness (1864)
Background It is possible to argue that the seeds of the American Civil War were planted before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution. Fourteen signers of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. The founding fathers’ goal was to … Continue reading
Frank Jones — Texas Ranger
No man in the wrong can stand up to a man in the right who just keeps on a-coming. —The Texas Ranger Creed Introduction The Texas Rangers began with ten men, appointed by Stephen F. Austin in 1823. He enlisted … Continue reading
The Stones River Fight — Part 2
A Gathering Storm As General Bragg struggled to manage his army at Murfreesboro, Major General Rosecrans prepared his plan. Despite his curt response to Halleck’s orders to move against Bragg, Rosecrans got the message. It was in his mind that … Continue reading
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The Stones River Fight — Part 1
Introduction In 1811, the Tennessee General Assembly determined that the location for a new county seat for Rutherford County should be called Cannonsburgh in honor of Newton Cannon, a local politician. A month later, however, those same politicians renamed the … Continue reading
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The Council House Fight
Background Between 1700-1875, the Comanche, Kiowa, Wichita, Caddo, Bidai, Karankawa, Eastern Pueblo, and Apache Indians dominated a massive swath of land in the area of present-day Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. It was called the Comancheria. It was … Continue reading
The Texas Navy — Part 2
(Continued from Last Week) The Second Texas Navy In mid-1837, all Texas’ ships were either wrecked, captured, or seized by creditors — making Texas vulnerable to another Mexican invasion. Mexico’s effective blockade of the Texas coastline made any ship attempting … Continue reading
The Texas Navy — Part 1
Background The Mexican Independence Era (1808-1829) was part of a much larger political movement in the Americas. It was a time when the Hispanic people of North America, Central America, and South America (and far distant Asian countries) threw off … Continue reading
A New England Man
Introduction In 1755, British colonists had a full plate: French soldiers and their Indian allies were killing British settlers, parliament was finding ways to increase everyone’s taxes, and the British monarch, who couldn’t speak English, was mentally ill. Amazingly, there was … Continue reading
The Ringtail Panther
Martin Van Buren Palmer (later, Parmer) (1778-1850) was born in Charlotte County, Virginia. In 1798, he moved to Tennessee, settling in Dickson County where he superintended the Montgomery-Bell Iron Works. During the War of 1812, Parmer served as a commissioned … Continue reading
In Search of Justice
In 1885, Joseph Isaac Clanton, known to his friends as “Ike,” surrounded himself with men such as Lee Renfro, G. W. “Kid” Swingle, a man named “Longhair” Sprague, Billy Evans, and Ebin Stanley (Ike’s brother-in-law). They were a scruffy lot, all … Continue reading
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