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Research in Tennessee (Research in the States Series)
by Gale Williams Bamman

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Hardcover (2000)
Natl Genealogical Society; ISBN: 0915156725
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History of the Thirteenth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry U.S.A.
by Samuel W. Scott, Samuel P. Angel

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Hardcover (December 1987)
The Overmountain Press; ISBN: 0932807232 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.27 x 8.62 x 5.98
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Though officially one of the Confederate States, much of Upper East Tennessee remained loyal to the Union. This loyalty was so fierce that it became necessary for The Confederacy to occupy the area. Driven from their homes, many men slipped through Confederate lines and joined the Union Army. The Thirteenth Regiment is one unit whose roster consisted of these Loyal Lincolnites, primarily made up of men from Johnson and Carter Counties. In this exciting volume, Captain Samuel Scott and his Adjutant, Samuel Angel, chronicle the history of the War Between the States as they saw it, particularly the actions of their Regiment as it fought for the North. Along with photographs of several of the men there is a complete roster. The Regimental roll contains name, rank, age at enlistment, dates of enlistment and muster in, promotion, capture, etc. A complete name index has been added to this splendid reprint edition.

Tennessee Genealogical Records : Records Early Settlers from State Country Archines
by Edythe R. Whitley

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Hardcover (June 1981)

Genealogical Pub Co; ISBN: 0806308737

Washington County, Tennessee Deeds, 1775-1800
by Lorraine Rae

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Southern Historical Pr; ISBN: 0893086894

200 Years Through 200 Stories : A Tennessee Bicentennial Collection
by Anne Klebenow

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Paperback (April 1997)
Univ of Tennessee Pr; ISBN: 0964221969 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.87 x 9.88 x 7.98

An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South : Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846
by Ezekiel Birdseye, Dunn Durwood, Durwood Dunn

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Univ of Tennessee Pr; ISBN: 0870499645 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x 9.35 x 6.35

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This volume, a collection of letters written by an abolitionist businessman who lived in East Tennessee prior to the Civil War, provides one of the clearest firsthand views yet published of a region whose political, social, and economic distinctions have intrigued historians for more than a century. Between 1841 and 1846, Birdseye expressed his views and observations in letters to Gerrit Smith, a prominent New York reformer who arranged to have many of them published in antislavery newspapers such as the Emancipator and Friend of Man. Those letters, reproduced in this book, drew on Birdseye's extensive conversations with slaveholders, nonslaveholders, and the slaves themselves. He found that East Tennesseans, on the whole, were antislavery in sentiment, susceptible to rational abolitionist appeal, and generally far more lenient toward individual slaves than were other southerners. Opposed to slavery on economic as well as moral grounds, Birdseye sought to establish a free labor colony in East Tennessee in the early 1840s and actively supported the region's abortive effort in 1842 to separate itself from the rest of the state.

War at Every Door : Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869 (Civil War America); Noel C. Fisher

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Hardcover - 288 pages (December 1997)
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 0807823678 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 9.62 x 6.35

America's First Western Frontier : East Tennessee
by Brenda C. Calloway, Brenda Callaway

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Bridge Burners; True Adventures of East Tennessee's Underground Civil War
by Cameron Judd

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Scots Irish in the Hills of Tennessee
by Billy Kennedy

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Emerald House Group; ISBN: 1898787468 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 8.25 x 5.53

Historic Sullivan : A History of Sullivan County, Tennessee With Brief Biographies of the Makers of History
by Oliver Taylor

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Hardcover (December 1988)
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Dropped Stitches in Tennessee History : Little Known Facts in the Earliest History of Tennessee
by John Allison

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Hardcover Reprint edition (July 1991)
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Carter's Raid : An Episode of the Civil War in East Tennessee
by William Garrett Piston, Tamara Geisert

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Paperback (December 1989)
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Historical Reminiscences of Carter County Tennessee
by Mildred Kozsuch

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Hardcover - 157 pages (December 1985)
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Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis
by Daniel Ellis Our Price: $19.95

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ellisa@nku.edu from Kentucky, U.S.A. , October 3, 1997 
True Civil War drama in the East Tennessee mountain region.
Daniel Ellis was a Unionist East Tennessean during the Civil War. An exiled fugitive for participating in bridge burning, he took to guiding escaped prisoners, southern deserters, slaves, and all manner of refugees through the mountains to the Union lines. He eventally became captain of Company A in the 13th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U.S.A.   "Thrilling Adventures" is Ellis' memoir, recounting the brutal hardships he had to undure during his years on the run. Written shortly after the war, it is tainted by his still-burning fury toward the Confederacy. The book has been criticized for perceived exaggerations, but its true excesses are in its narrative style, full of classical allusions and long-winded melodrama -- elements long since gone out of fashion.   Given its faults in narrative and Ellis' understandable lack of objectivity, the book is an accurate account of life in souuthern Appalachia during the Civil War. The region in that era is receiving increasing attention, most notably in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain (which acknowledges Ellis' Thrilling Adventures) and Cameron Judd's Mountain War trilogy.   For more information on Ellis, see "Captain Daniel Ellis: An Annotated Bibliography" in the December 1996 issue of Bulletin of Bibliography.  

Bristol Tennessee/Virginia : A History 1852-1900
by V. N. Bud Phillips

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Hardcover - 479 pages (March 1992)
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Cold Mountain : A Novel by Charles Frazier Text Excerpt Read the first chapter of this title.

The Shadow Warriors : A Novel of Unionist Resistance in Tennessee and North Carolina, September 1860-January 1863 (Mountain War, No 1)
by Cameron Judd

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Paperback - 464 pages (March 1997)
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The Phantom Legion : A Novel of Unionist Resistance in Tennessee and North Carolina February-December, 1863 (Mountain War Trilogy , No 2)
by Cameron Judd

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Season of Reckoning : A Novel of Unionist Resistance in Tennessee and North Carolina, January 1864-February 1866 (Judd, Cameron. Mountain War Trilogy,
by Cameron Judd

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Paperback - 496 pages (November 1997)
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Mountain Folk, Mountain Food : Down-Home Wisdom, Plain Tales and Recipe Secrets from Appalachia
by Betsy Tice White

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