Julia In Shelbyville

An excerpt from John Tervis's narrative:

Julia's story:

Source: Sixty-years In A Schoolroom

Julia's memorial at FindAGrave.


Descriptive survey of Science Hill from the NPS (also a plat map of Shelbyville)

The Little Force That Was To Decide

"Slipping down the river towards him came the little force that was to decide the fate and future of all North America."

Braddock Grave Sign (NPS) In Pennsylvania

"The Indian raids on the British colonies, Washington's years of endurance on the mountain frontier, the incompetence of Braddock and Loudoun, *Webb and Abercrombie were about to be avenged."[Source - Plains Of Abraham]

*"An English colonel, Daniel Webb, for no historically assignable reason, was then sent over as a place-warmer for two Scotchmen: James Abercrombie, another court favorite, who in turn was to be locum tenens for John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, though all three were to remain as generals." [Source]

Bartram At Matanzas

Fort Matanzas, Florida

From A Description of East-Florida: With a Journal, Kept by John Bartram of ...,  By William Stork, John Bartram (published in 1769):

At the Matanzas, 15 miles south of Wood cutters creek, is a small fort and harbour fit for coasting vessels. 

See the National Park Service site for more information.

Where Lyon Fell

Marker Where General Lyon Fell - Battle Of Wilson's Creek

Source

General Nathaniel Lyon died August 10, 1861.

Also see: War Correspondent Junius Henri Brown

Guilford Courthouse To Goodlettsville

Guilford Courthouse Road - Greensboro, North Carolina

....like so many Pennsylvania borderers, [Buchanan] had migrated to North Carolina, settling in the neighborhood of Guilford Courthouse, now surrounded by the town of Greensboro.

Mansker Station Woodturner

In any case, late 1779 found the younger Buchanans building a station on the southern side of the Cumberland River...of what is now Nashville. On the other side of the Lick Branch, another station was soon being built, that of George Freeland, while north of the river about twelve miles away, near present day Goodlettsville, there was a finished station. This belonged to Kaspar Mansker who had by 1779 been hunting over the region for more than a dozen years. [Source: Flowering of the Cumberland, Arnow]

William Henry, Armorer Attached To Braddock's Expedition

Braddock's "Road To Disaster" Near Fort Necessity National Battlefield

NPS Sign At Fort Necessity

Source

"He" is William Henry, born May 19, 1729.

Via The Wilderness Trace Through Kentucky

Cumberland Gap Area

Henry Hamilton's Journal:

Sad News For The Confederates

Also See Dear Diary: Visiting The Acklins

View Of Cumberland Gap

THE DIARY

Sad news this morning-- a battle at "Cumberland Gap" in which the Federals were victorious-- although we retreated-- yet they were greater losers.  We regret so much that Gen. Solicoffer fell-- [Source]

Cumberland Gap website at the National Park Service here.

Source

Camping At Fort Davis

A Texas Pioneer: Early Staging and Overland Freighting Days on the Frontiers ...

"We continued our journey westward and arrived at Fort Davis in the morning and camped until two o'clock in the afternoon."

Louisiana Plantations

Oakley Plantation In Louisiana

Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees, Volume 1:

Up From Slavery...

....An autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

Booker T. Washington's Home Office