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TENNESSEE. |
PROBABLY the first white
people to look upon Tennessee
soil were the Spanish cavaliers
of De Soto's army in 1541.
Reaching the Mississippi, at the
site of Memphis, La Salle built
Fort Prud'homme 140 years later,
on the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff,
and in 1714 the French erected
Fort Assumption. In 1748 a party
of Virginians discovered the
Cumberland Mountains, named after
the Duke of Cumberland. The North
Carolinians entered Tennessee as
early as 1754, but they were
hurled back across the mountains
by hostile Indians. Two years
later Fort London was founded on
the Little Tennessee. In 1761 a
little army of Virginians and
North Carolinians, under Colonel
Grant, crossed the Alleghanies
and defeated the savages in
several bloody battles, after
which they sued for peace. About
the year 1770, the strong tides
of migration from Virginia and
North Carolina began to flow into
Tennessee. Settling along the
Holston, Watanza and Nolechucky,
they inaugurated Virginian laws
in the deep wilderness and
suffered many troubles from the
Royal Government and the Indians.
In 1779-80 a fleet of open boats
made an astonishing voyage of
2,000 miles from Fort Patrick
Henry to French Lick, where they
founded Nashville. The commander
of the fleet was John Donelson,
whose daughter (Rachel) married
General Andrew Jackson. In 1861
the Tennesseans refused to summon
a convention to consider seceding
from the Union, but three months
later they voted an ordinance of
Secession. Within less than a
year a great part of the State
was restored to Federal
authority, and Andrew Johnson
became military governor. Thirty
counties of East Tennessee
refused to join in secession. |
ILLUSTRATIONS. |
French
Traders from Louisiana, beginning
of 18th Century
Jackson's Extermination of the
Creeks, 1814; Death of
Colonel Ferguson and Some of his
Troops, 1780. |
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