Recent Memorial Pages by redclaysreturn087

• :Removal of the Cherokee: eyewitness accounts

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  Updated 19 Mar 2012 - 1,566 views

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• Intruders on Indian lands

  The engine of conquest of the new world required a huge cadre of single men willing to encroach and settle on lands belonging to Indians or the…

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  Updated 28 Dec 2011 - 3,144 views

  Contributions 3 images, 1 story

• Hang down your head Tom Dula: what a coincidence!

  Tom Dooley's real name was Tom Dula, of Wilkes County, North Carolina, who, upon returning from the Civil War was hanged for the murder of his sweetheart.

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  Updated 22 May 2011 - 931 views

  Contributions 1 image, 2 comments, 1 story

• More John Murrell Mythology

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  Updated 02 Mar 2011 - 429 views

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• John Murrell and the 1835 slave revolt

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  Updated 28 Feb 2011 - 2,526 views

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• History of Cracker America

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  Updated 27 Feb 2011 - 1,027 views

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• Federal activity in Carrollton and Villa Rica: the Moore's Bridge raid

  The Moore's Bridge raid on July 15, 1864 brought Union Soldiers to Carroll County in force.

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  Updated 20 Feb 2011 - 506 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• Buck Heard and Blackbirding (slave stealing)

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  Updated 19 Feb 2011 - 752 views

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• Proof some of John Murrell mythology is based on Dula-Patton murder?

  The story of Murrell and Crenshaw throwing the body of a South Carolinian named Woods into a ravine in Tennessee may have an origin in a real event, the…

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  Updated 16 Feb 2011 - 526 views

  Contributions 3 images, 1 story

• Pirates on the Chattahoochee?

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  Updated 09 Feb 2011 - 213 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• The Gouger Tradition in America

  Though it has been traced to England, Gouging was known throughout the Colonies as the American way of fighting. Losing one's eye in a gouging match…

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  Updated 05 Feb 2011 - 518 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• Attempt by the Pony Club to kill John Ross, chief of the Cherokee

  It might have been predicted by anyone that eventually the Pony Club would make an attempt to remove their most famous detractor.

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  Updated 29 Jan 2011 - 799 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• The Story of Abraham, the Seminole leader

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  Updated 29 Jan 2011 - 473 views

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• Captain Slick, mythical leader of frontier regulators

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  Updated 26 Jan 2011 - 338 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• Sandtown on the Chattahoochee River: most infamous spot in NW Georgia

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  Updated 24 Jan 2011 - 602 views

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story

• The Jones Ferry crossing on Sweet Water Creek

  Called in Indian times the Old Settlement Road, it ran from Sandtown all the way to Alabama. Whenever the Chattahoochee was flooded this ferry was used to…

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  Updated 18 Jan 2011 - 307 views

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story

• The First Seminole War

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  Updated 17 Jan 2011 - 1,483 views

  Contributions 3 images, 1 story

• U.S. Surreptitious activities in East Florida before the War of 1812

  President Madison saw the weakness of Spanish Florida's authorities and moved to insure the British would not take advantage of this.

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  Updated 16 Jan 2011 - 654 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• Creek Peter McQueen makes war on America

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  Updated 14 Jan 2011 - 610 views

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• Frontier Violence: a surplus of young single men

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  Updated 09 Jan 2011 - 663 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story