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Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont
Josephus Conn Guild was a memorable Tennessee statesman of remarkable stature. Rose Mont, the Palladian and Greek Revival mansion he built in Gallatin in the 1840s, is his most visible legacy. But this attorney, soldier, judge, and thoroughbred enthusiast also left behind an intangible legacy as one of the most influential men of his time. In Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont: Politics and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Tennessee, Tennessee state historian Walter T. Durham has compiled a definitive history of Guild combining previously unpublished portions of Guild's own journals as well as new scholarship on the man, his family, and two of his passions: Rose Mont and his beloved horses. This new volume completes the record on Guild, providing a glimpse of his public and private lives. It includes many images of Rose Mont as well as portraits of Guild, his family, and his descendants. There is no doubt that Guild's contemporaries respected him as a man of integrity. With this book, Walter Durham has ensured that Guild's story will be preserved for future generations to know and appreciate his deep and lasting impact on the state of Tennessee. Book jacket.
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Rendezvous at the Alamo
On March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell after a thirteen-day siege by General Antonio López de Santa Anna and his Mexican army. The fall of the mission ranks as one of the most recognizable events in American history. Rendezvous at the Alamo presents capsule biographies of three prominent historical figures at the Alamo: Jim Bowie, William Barret Travis, and Davy Crockett. Using diaries, personal letters, eyewitness accounts, and a wealth of secondary souce material, Virgil E. Baugh describes the varied lives of the three and shows how each ended up at the Alamo. In spite of their fame, all three men had been dogged by frustration and failure, but in death their immortality was insured.
Chattanooga's St. Elmo
During Chattanooga's post-Civil War industrial boom, A.M. Johnson subdivided land inherited by his wife, Thankful, from her industrialist father, James Whiteside. Located on the eastern side of Lookout Mountain, south of Chattanooga, Johnson named his new community St. Elmo after the title of the popular novel by Augusta Evans, who had visited the area before the war and used it as a setting for her book. By 1900, the community had grown to over 2,000 residents and was the home of wealthy industrialists, as well as small business owners and factory workers. Known as Chattanooga's first suburb, the St. Elmo neighborhood is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Historic Haunts of Sumner County, Tennessee
From the homes of the first settlers in Middle Tennessee to Gallatin's public square and everywhere in between, there is not a more haunted county in America. The Winchesters' unique and architecturally impressive Cragfont had mysterious occurrences from its very beginnings in the late 1700s. Gallatin's public square, its courthouse, loft apartments and places of business have hauntings that seem to specifically point to restless spirits still unsettled from the oppressive days of Civil War occupation by a brutal commanding officer of the Union army. Even the modern subdivisions are not immune to the supernatural, hosting everything from flying cryptids to tormented spirit-remnants of the bloody conflict between settlers and Native Americans. Author Donna Lyn Hartley details the spooky side of Sumner County.
The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee
This second volume of Armstrong’s history covers 1861–1940, beginning with the Civil War, continuing on with activities during Reconstruction through the end of the century, and concluding with the feeling of optimism upon entering the 20th century. Full of details about the subsequent growth––of banks, newspapers, education, communication, transportation, and industry––and all the happenings and people involved, this history is a truly comprehensive resource.
Correspondence of James K. Polk
In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating, to the formation of his administration and distribution of party patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for its defense, restoration of diplomatic relations with Mexico, and termination of joint occupancy of the Oregon Country. In addition to the texts, briefs, and annotations, the editors have calendared all of the documents for the last six months of 1845. Entries for unpublished letters include the documents' dates, addressees, classifications, repositories, and precis. The Polk Project is sponsored by the University of Tennessee and assisted by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Tennessee Historical Commission.
The Beta Theta Pi
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Vols. 29-30 contain papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54, pts. A-F, papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
