The loyal mountaineers of Tennessee by Thomas William Humes
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of the provided text, however, unfolds a very different work: a historical account honoring East Tennessee’s loyalty to the Union and tracing the region’s character from its frontier roots. It moves from preface and introduction—geography, settlement along the Watauga and Holston, the people’s culture, Knoxville as the hub—into early history: the Watauga Association, the Overmountain Men’s march and decisive victory at King’s Mountain, and the short-lived State of Franklin with its clash between John Sevier and North Carolina authority. The narrative highlights hardship, hospitality, ambivalent attitudes toward slavery, and the rise of manumission sentiment, then shifts to antebellum tensions, local political oratory, and sectional agitation, setting the stage for the trials of the Civil War. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Humes, Thomas William, 1815-1892 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 02015662 |
| Title | The loyal mountaineers of Tennessee |
| Original Publication | Knoxville: Ogden Brothers & Company, 1888. |
| Credits | Carla Foust, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865) |
| Subject | Tennessee, East -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77471 |
| Release Date | Dec 15, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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