In doing some follow-up reading for my recent ‘state of Scott’ post I discovered an interesting counter-balance to that story. It seems that Franklin County was impatient with the Tennessee’s delay in leaving the Union and joining the Confederacy. It came to the point where they actually voted in favor of leaving the state of [...]
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More Civil War angst in Tennessee
Posted in History on May 24, 2012 | 5 Comments »
The free and independent state of Scott (TN history)
Posted in History on May 23, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I don’t remember how old I was when I realized Tennessee was a slave state during the Civil War, but I remember being mortified about it. I took some consolation in the fact that Tennessee was the last state to join the Confederacy and the first to leave it after the war. I also felt [...]
Money 101 – The Hawaii Overprint Note
Posted in History on December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s pretty common consensus, among people that care, that one of the greater strategic blunders of World War II was that Japan didn’t send in an invasion fleet after the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor. It was a very real fear throughout the opening years of American involvement in the war when Japan was taking [...]
