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Between 23 and 25 September, 1863 the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps of the Army of the Potomac were sent across the Appalachians to strengthen Union troops in the struggle for supremacy in Eastern Tennessee. The Battle of Chickamauga - a Confederate victory that just missed being a complete Federal rout - had ended, exhausting both armies and leaving Union troops perilously bottled up in Chattanooga. Upon the prodding of newspaperman Charles Dana, who was on the scene, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton resolved to provide Union commander General William Rosecrans with reinforcements sufficient to hold that key town. After a late-night meeting with Lincoln and other cabinet members, Stanton's proposal to send more than twenty thousand men to Chattanooga by rail within a week was adopted. This is the story of that first great Federal troop movement by rail and of the corresponding Confederate transfer of General James Longstreet's troops a few weeks previously. The contrast between the two operations points up the Union advantages in technology, infrastructure, and mobility that would offset the Confederate advantage of interior lines. An important study of a critical movement, the work also benefits from an assembly of anecdotes and comments from the troops involved. Roger Pickenpaugh is a journalist and teacher in Caldwell, Ohio.
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• The most prominent man in Alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley
• Logans, law, and political futility
• Alabama fever and Georgia faction
• The politics of political change
• Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington
• The burdens of justice on the Antebellum Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court and the original Ninth Circuit, 1837-1842
• Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852
• The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculator and lawyer, McKinley was elected to the state legislature three times and became first a representative and then a senator in the US Congress before being elevated to the Supreme Court in 1837. He spent his first five years on the court presiding over the newly created Ninth Circuit, which covered Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. His was not only the newest circuit, encompassing a region that, because of its recent settlement, included a huge number of legal claims related to property, but it was also the largest, the furthest from Washington, DC, and by far the most difficult to traverse. While this is a thorough biography of McKinley's life, it also details early Alabama state politics and provides one of the most exhaustive accounts available of the internal workings of the antebellum Supreme Court and the very real challenges that accompanied the now-abandoned practice of circuit riding. In providing the first indepth assessment of the life and Supreme Court career of Justice John McKinley, Brown has given us a compelling portrait of a man active in the leading financial, legal, and political circles of his day.
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• Introduction : a whole country in commotion / Patrick G. Williams
• Lewis and Clark : kidnappers / Elliott West
• Jefferson's grand expedition and the mystery of the Red River / Dan Flores
• Could Louisiana have become an Hispano-Indian republic? / Kathleen DuVal
• A shifting middle ground : Arkansas's frontier exchange economy and the Louisiana Purchase / Jeannie M. Whayne
• Jeffersonian Indian removal and the emergence of Arkansas Territory / S. Charles Bolton
• "Outcasts upon the world" : the Louisiana Purchase and the Quapaws / Joseph Patrick Key
• The Louisiana Purchase and the Black experience / Charles F. Robinson II
• The first years of American justice : courts and lawyers on the Arkansas frontier / Lynn Foster
• Dancing into the past : colonial legacies in modern Caddo Indian ceremony / George Sabo III.

• Prologue: Burnt Corn Creek
• We are perfectly tranquil here
• Yelling and screaming like perfect demons
• The horror of the scene
• The doleful sound from the treetops
• Let every shot tell
• A rough sort of backwoodsman
• Rattling peals of thunder
• Unlawful and improper
• Rapine and plunder
• A whapper of a lie
• I will be governor of Tennessee
• Scalping knives and tomahawks
• Possessed with the furies
• I had come for their votes
• The bloody deeds of Gen. Jackson
• A thousand wild rumors
• A wicked, unjust measure
• A citizen of the Cherokee Nation
• Let us have Crockett's march
• Most daring outrage and assault
• I will go to Texas
• The claws of thirsty, rascally and convict soldiers
• Damn him, let him take the horse
• The enemy is closely shut up in Bejar
• Farewell
• The key to Texas
• The enemy are in view
• War is raging on the frontiers
• My orders must be obeyed
• A horrible carnage took place
• The flash of a musket
• Their forlorn situation
• That is Sam Houston's writing
• Wisdom and humanity dictates.

The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston. All three fought the Creeks and each would have his part to play two decades later when the Alamo was stormed during fight for Texan independence from Mexico. President Jackson was the first head of state to recognize the fledgling Republic of Texas. Colonel Crockett would be enshrined as a folk hero for his glorious stand at the Alamo. General Houston won Texan independence at San Jacinto in 1836. This book tells the stories of the two landmark battles - Fort Mims and the Alamo - and the interwoven lives of Jackson, Crockett and Houston, three of the most controversial men in American history.
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• The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley
• Logans, law, and political futility
• Alabama fever and Georgia faction
• The politics of political change
• Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington
• The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842
• Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852
• The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculator and lawyer, McKinley was elected to the state legislature three times and became first a representative and then a senator in the US Congress before being elevated to the Supreme Court in 1837. He spent his first five years on the court presiding over the newly created Ninth Circuit, which covered Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. His was not only the newest circuit, encompassing a region that, because of its recent settlement, included a huge number of legal claims related to property, but it was also the largest, the furthest from Washington, DC, and by far the most difficult to traverse. While this is a thorough biography of McKinley's life, it also details early Alabama state politics and provides one of the most exhaustive accounts available of the internal workings of the antebellum Supreme Court and the very real challenges that accompanied the now-abandoned practice of circuit riding. In providing the first indepth assessment of the life and Supreme Court career of Justice John McKinley, Brown has given us a compelling portrait of a man active in the leading financial, legal, and political circles of his day.
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• The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley
• Logans, law, and political futility
• Alabama fever and Georgia faction
• The politics of political change
• Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington
• The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842
• Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852
• The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculator and lawyer, McKinley was elected to the state legislature three times and became first a representative and then a senator in the US Congress before being elevated to the Supreme Court in 1837. He spent his first five years on the court presiding over the newly created Ninth Circuit, which covered Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. His was not only the newest circuit, encompassing a region that, because of its recent settlement, included a huge number of legal claims related to property, but it was also the largest, the furthest from Washington, DC, and by far the most difficult to traverse. While this is a thorough biography of McKinley's life, it also details early Alabama state politics and provides one of the most exhaustive accounts available of the internal workings of the antebellum Supreme Court and the very real challenges that accompanied the now-abandoned practice of circuit riding. In providing the first indepth assessment of the life and Supreme Court career of Justice John McKinley, Brown has given us a compelling portrait of a man active in the leading financial, legal, and political circles of his day.
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• Illustrations and Maps-- Preface-- Prologue-- Beginnings-- Vanguard of Empire-- The Frontier-- The Cumberland Salient-- Under Siege-- I Am a Native of This Nation and of Rank in It
• The Rise of Andrew Jackson-- Buchanan's Station and Nickajack-- When You Have Read This Letter over Three Times, Then Burn It
• Major General Andrew Jackson-- Conspiracy and Blood-- Old Hickory-- Massacre-- Time Is Not to Be Lost
• Mutiny-- They Whipped Captain Jackson, and Run Him to the Coosa River
• Horseshoe Bend-- We Have Conquered
• I Act without the Orders of Government
• To Arms!-- I Will Smash Them, so Help Me God!-- Beauty and Booty-- Epilogue-- Notes-- Selected Bibliography-- Index.
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Andrew Jackson was a US President so well-loved that men voted for him 15 years after his death. This book chronicles the fight to control the old Southwest, the huge territory stretching from the Appalachians to the Mississippi and from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. John Buchanan details Jackson's exploits from his days as an Indian fighter to his defeat of the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) - the stunning victory that made him a national hero and paved the way for him to become the President who gave his name to an age.
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• "Ripe for the harvest": the border before the war, 1860-1861
• "Civil War was fully inaugurated": the border war, 1861
• "The depth of misfortune and misery": regular and irregular war, 1862
• "The arch fiend could desire nothing more": the devolution of war, 1863
• "Deplorable condition of the country": civilization extirpated, 1864-1865.