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Balie Peyton of Tennessee
Balie Peyton lived a life of contrasts. As a congressman from Tennessee in the nineteenth century, he shaped national policy. Elected as a follower of President Andrew Jackson, he turned against the Jackson administration in his second term and helped found the opposition Whig Party. He quit Congress after two terms, but remained active in politics. Peyton also had another love -- thoroughbred horses -- but financial success in turf matters always seemed to elude him. In the ultimate contrast, Balie Peyton was a loyal Unionist from a Southern state. He opposed Tennessee's secession from the republic, and urged reconciliation. Although a slaveholder, the issues of slavery and Southern rights weren't enough to change his loyalty, not even when his son joined the Confederate Army and died in battle. Rich in detail and drawn mainly from original sources, Balie Peyton of Tennessee celebrates the many facets of the life of this American patriot and statesman.
Nashville
In 1862, Nashville became the first Southern state capital to be captured by the Union Army; that occupation would not end until after the Civil War's conclusion in 1865. In two incisive books, first published more than twenty years ago and available once more for a new generation of readers, Walter T. Durham traces occupied Nashville's reluctant transition from Rebel stronghold to partner of the Union. Together, Nashville and Reluctant Partners highlight the importance of local history within Civil War scholarship and assess the impact of the war on people other than combat soldiers and places other than battlefields. Nashville examines the first seventeen months of the Union occupation, sh...
Volunteer Forty-niners
In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such archival sources as personal narratives in letters and diaries, public records, and newspaper reports, Durham has woven a wealth of information into his recounting of their adventures.
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.
Rebellion Revisited
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Before Tennessee
"The Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, known subsequently as the Southwest Territory, was created in 1790, the second great federal territory. Comparatively small in size, it has been regarded by most as only an interlude in the developing history of the state of Tennessee that began with the first settlements in the western lands of North Carolina" -- Preface.
Old Sumner
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Reluctant Partners
In 1862, Nashville became the first Southern state capital to be captured by the Union Army; that occupation would not end until after the Civil War's conclusion in 1865. In two incisive books, first published more than twenty years ago and available once more for a new generation of readers, Walter T. Durham traces occupied Nashville's reluctant transition from Rebel stronghold to partner of the Union. Together, Nashville and Reluctant Partners highlight the importance of local history within Civil War scholarship and assess the impact of the war on people other than combat soldiers and places other than battlefields. Nashville examines the first seventeen months of the Union occupation, sh...
