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347 Notes CHAPTER 1 1. Daniel Smith, A short description of the State of Tennessee, lately called the Territory of the United States south of the river Ohio, Philadelphia, 1796 (cited hereafter as Smith, Description), mentioned, 24, rice and indigo among the crops “to be most important,” but I can find neither record nor tradition of either having been grown on the Cumberland. 2. John M. Gray, The Life of Joseph Bishop, Nashville, 1858 (cited hereafter as Gray, Bishop), 218. Joseph Bishop, “the little shooting Bishop,” was a mighty hunter, Indian scout, and bailiff who settled in Middle Tennessee in 1791. 3. VS, I, 262. 4. WD, I, 1. 5. Used by permission of the publishers, Stearns Coal and Lumber Company, from The Gum Tree Story, by W. A. Kinnie (cited hereafter as The Gum Tree), 10–11. 6. Used by permission of the author, S. A. Weakley, from Cumberland River Floods Since the Settlement of the Basin with Special Reference to Nashville, Tennessee . Submitted to the Faculty of Vanderbilt University in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Civil Engineer, 1935, and housed in Joint University Libraries, Nashville, 1–9. 7. Population figures are based on the 1958 estimate of the Nashville District, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. 8. PD, IV, 227. “Messrs. James Old & Co.—You will please pay over to Mr. John Hughes all proceeds arising from the sale of one hundred four thousand and thirty pounds of tobacco that I consigned to you which was shipped to Amsterdam—C. Stewart, March 20, 1820.” 9. Tinker Beatty, partisan leader of Union forces that harried our part of the Cumberland, testified that he and his men had killed, by bushwhacking— shooting from ambush—at least twenty-five men. He took only one prisoner and that one was wounded. Nothing happened to him, but “Champ” Ferguson , guerrilla for the South, was tried for his military crimes by a U.S. Army Court during the Occupation of Nashville, and after a trial of more than two 348| Notes to Chapter 2 months was hanged Sept. 26, 1865. Thurman Sensing, “Champ.” Ferguson— Confederate Guerilla, copyright Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, 1942, quotes much testimony concerning the activities of both men. Omitted is that of one of my grandmothers—she was a young bride out with her in-laws trying to make sorghum molasses—the plant new at that time and untried by most in our region until The War cut off sugar—when “Champ” Ferguson came with a band of men; they amused themselves by leaping their horses back and forth across the big sugar-water kettles used for lack of an evaporator ; on this round “Champ” killed only one—a young boy—shot so they said in the road—and left for the hogs. 10. General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, 1812–1862, was killed at the Battle of Logan’s Cross Roads, erroneously referred to as the Battle of Mill Springs by a marker on the wrong side of the Cumberland. Jan. 19, 1862, was a rainy, foggy time, and Isaac Chrisman, son of innumerable Isaac Chrismans, thought he had killed Zollicoffer. Soon, he brought his rifle to a Wayne County, Ky., blacksmith shop, and insisted it be forged into a pruning hook. Col. Speed S. Frye of the Union Army was said to have boasted of killing Zollicoffer, and the story was told that southern-sympathizing relatives dropped the e from their name so as to show they were no longer kin of the northern branch. CHAPTER 2 1. Used by permission of the Division of Geology, Department of Conservation , State of Tennessee, Nashville, from The Stratigraphy of the Central Basin of Tennessee by R. S. Bassler, copyright Division of Geology, Nashville, 1932 (cited hereafter as Bassler, Tennessee), 12–18. See also W. H. Twenhofel, The Building of Kentucky, copyright Kentucky Geological Survey, Frankfort, 1931 (cited hereafter as Twenhofel, Kentucky), 106–107. 2. John Haywood of the County of Davidson, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee up to the First Settlement therein by the White People in the Year 1768, Nashville, 1823 (cited hereafter as Haywood, N & A), 3. 3 Reprinted by permission of the publishers, The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, from Early Western Travels 1748–1846 edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, copyright by the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, 1904–1907 (cited hereafter as Thwaites, Travels), III; “André Michaux’s Travels into Kentucky, 1793–1796” (cited hereafter as Michaux, “Journal”), 95. 4. Smith, Description, 12. 5. Gray, Bishop...
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