Appalachian Figures When people talk about the Stennis name, they usually mean Senator John C. Stennis, the Kemper County lawyer whose career stretched from Brown v. Mississippi in the 1930s to Vietnam hearings and aircraft carriers in the Cold War. For local history, though, it matters that he was not the only Stennis in public life.
Appalachian History A Warfield Skirmish on the Tug Fork On the riverbank at Warfield, where Kentucky looks across the Tug Fork into West Virginia, a green highway marker compresses a complicated Civil War story into a few sentences. It tells of “a plundering, burning, Confederate detached force” under Col.
Appalachian History A crossroads county at war Magoffin County was barely on the map when the Civil War began. Created in 1860 from parts of Johnson, Morgan, and Floyd Counties, it counted only 3,485 residents in the 1860 census. Later research for the Magoffin County Civil War monument shows that 431 local men would serve in the conflict, 308 in Union blue and 123 in Confederate gray.
Appalachian History On a hot Saturday in July 1861, a young Union officer named John W. Tuttle rode up the hill that overlooks Albany, the little courthouse town at the heart of Clinton County.
Appalachian History Introduction For most Civil War readers, names like Shiloh, Chickamauga, or Perryville come to mind before Harlan County. On official maps, this corner of the Cumberland Plateau barely registers. Yet the war reached Harlan’s hollows in very real ways. Skirmishes flickered along Poor Fork and Clover Fork. A courthouse went up in flames. Men enrolled in a short lived but hard working local battalion.
Appalachian Figures When George Madison Adams died in Winchester, Kentucky, in April 1920, he left behind a mountain story that reached far beyond the hills where it began. Born in Barbourville in 1837, he grew up in a small Appalachian county seat, went to war as a Union officer, served four terms in Congress, and then spent much of Reconstruction as Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Appalachian Figures On the last day of 1862, a Knox County native who had grown up along the Wilderness Road sat in Washington and wrote to the president. Green Adams of Barbourville had been a Whig, a circuit judge, and twice a congressman from Kentucky’s Sixth District. He was also a slaveholder who had just watched the federal government abolish slavery in the nation’s capital and prepare to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
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