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The History of the Descendants of John Dwight
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Portraits of Conflict
This largest volume yet in the University of Arkansas Press's award-winning series on the Civil War deepens our understanding of the nation's costliest human conflict. It tells the stories of the ordinary soldierstheir heroism and fear, the boredom and the miseryin the midst of war. - Publisher.
The George Cabots
George Cabot (1678-1717) left home in St. Helier's, Jersey in the Channel Islands to settle in Salem, Massachusetts, ca. 1700. He was the son of Francis and Suzanne Gruchy Cabot. George married Abigail Marston in 1702 in Salem. He later died in Boston. Descendants lived in Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Michigan, MInnesota, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, California, and elsewhere. .
Annual Reunion
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Oxford and Ole Miss
Oxford and Lafayette County were formed from the Pontotoc Treaty and the Chickasaw Cession of 1832 and the revised agreement in 1834. This treaty with the Chickasaws ceded land that formed 12 counties in North Mississippi. On June 22, 1836, three land speculators, John Martin, John Chisom, and John Craig, donated 50 acres to the Board of Police for the formation of the city of Oxford. The name Oxford was proposed by a nephew of John Craig, Thomas D. Isom, who worked for him in his trading post, in hopes that the state legislature would place the new state university there. Oxford was chartered by the State of Mississippi on May 11, 1837. The University of Mississippi opened its doors in 1848.
Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton, Vol. 2, 1875–1881
Emory Upton (1839–1881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 1861. He was wounded three times during the war. He participated in nearly ever major battle in the Eastern Theater including Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania, where he led a prominent attack on entrenched Confederate positions—a signal of Upton’s brilliance as an officer and of his military creativity that foreshadowed his later work in revising the Army’s tactics. Upton was mustered out of service in 1866 and later named commandant of cadets at West Point, a position that carved a path for Upton to focus more on Army tactics a...
