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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563115492
Category : Laclede County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Jeannette Whitten Gott
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Category : Miller County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Richard Gott who was born ca. 1630 in England. He immigrated to America ca. 1650 and settled in Maryland. Richard married Susan (surname unknown). They lived in Ann Arundel Co., Maryland and were the parents of three known children. Descendants lived primarily in Maryland and Missouri.

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Category : Claiborne County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: Gillum Ferguson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252094557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Russell P. Strange "Book of the Year" Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2012. On the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. Split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the U.S. border with Canada, embracing the current states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and a part of Michigan. The extreme southern part of the region was rich in timber, but the dominant feature of the landscape was the vast tall grass prairie that stretched without major interruption from Lake Michigan for more than three hundred miles to the south. The territory was largely inhabited by Indians: Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and others. By 1812, however, pioneer farmers had gathered in the wooded fringes around prime agricultural land, looking out over the prairies with longing and trepidation. Six years later, a populous Illinois was confident enough to seek and receive admission as a state in the Union. What had intervened was the War of 1812, in which white settlers faced both Indians resistant to their encroachments and British forces poised to seize control of the upper Mississippi and Great Lakes. The war ultimately broke the power and morale of the Indian tribes and deprived them of the support of their ally, Great Britain. Sometimes led by skillful tacticians, at other times by blundering looters who got lost in the tall grass, the combatants showed each other little mercy. Until and even after the war was concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, there were massacres by both sides, laying the groundwork for later betrayal of friendly and hostile tribes alike and for ultimate expulsion of the Indians from the new state of Illinois. In this engrossing new history, published upon the war's bicentennial, Gillum Ferguson underlines the crucial importance of the War of 1812 in the development of Illinois as a state. The history of Illinois in the War of 1812 has never before been told with so much attention to the personalities who fought it, the events that defined it, and its lasting consequences. Endorsed by the Illinois Society of the War of 1812 and the Illinois War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.

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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1124

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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490

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Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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Author: Bruce Nichols
Publisher: McFarland
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri in 1862, the year such warfare became the primary type of military action there and the year that the state saw almost constant fighting. The author utilizes both well-known and obscure sources (including military and government records, private accounts, county and other local histories, period and later newspapers, and secondary sources published after the war), to identify which Southern partisan leaders and groups operated in which areas of Missouri, and describe how they operated and how their kinds of warfare evolved. The actions of Southern guerrilla forces and Confederate behind-enemy-lines recruiters are presented chronologically by region so that readers may see the relationship of seemingly isolated events to other events over a period of time in a given area. The counteractions of an array of different types of Union troops fighting guerrillas in Missouri are also covered to show how differences in training, leadership, and experiences affected behaviors and actions in the field.

Author: William Henry Peterson
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1880

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