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William Faulkner once said, "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."In 1883 Mark Twain turned John Andrews Murrell into a legend when he mentioned him in his classic memoir "Life on the Mississippi." He drew a difference between Murrell and the famous outlaw Jesse James when he wrote, "James was a retail rascal...Murel, wholesale...what are James and his half dozen vulgar rascals compared to the stately old time criminal, with his sermons, his meditated insurrections and city-captures and his majestic following of ten hundred men, sworn to do his evil will!"Twain, like many, fell for the legend of Murrell. In reality, Murrell was a two-bit horse thief and slave stealer. But a motivated young man named Virgil Stewart would write a pamphlet that would turn Murrell into an icon and help ignite a chain of events that would explode the Mississippi Delta into a violent storm of mobocracy. Some say the Devil himself took control of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the weekend of July 4th, 1835. Join Murrell, Duke Shannon, Doctor Hugh Bodley, Levi Morris, Cuffee and Ameriday Scull, and other memorable characters in The Righteous Killers. Read along and get caught up in the gossip, paranoia, and mistrust of the early Antebellum South. Observe how outside influences can lead typically well-meaning citizens to take law and order into their own hands. Rascals and rapscallions mingle among hard-working pioneers setting the scene for a violent showdown. A young Abraham Lincoln would pay particular attention to the Vicksburg, Mississippi riots. He gave a memorable speech to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, at 28 years old. In the address, he clarifies that our perpetuation as a country cannot continue if mob law rules the day.

By: Emmett Star, Pub. 1921, reprinted 2021, 676 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #9788-1-63914-048-0.The Cherokees were considered the largest of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes, which also included Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles. Having been forcibly removed from their Southeastern lands in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee via a treaty in the 1830's to new lands in Oklahoma. As the researcher will already know, there is a great deal of genealogical data on the Cherokees, mostly in the form of census records and enrollment records. The author has included many valuable items of interest concerning the Cherokee's history as a whole, such as: their constitution, treaties with the federal government, land transactions, school system, migration and resettlement to Oklahoma, committees, councils, officials, religion, language, and culture. The genealogist or family history will be delighted to find that half of this book is devoted to hundreds of genealogies and biographies. The biographies are noteworthy for their focus on the genealogical events of birth, marriage, and death over a period of several generations, naming thousands of related individuals in a classic roll-call of family members.

BY: Robert Armistead Stewart, Orig. Pub. 1934, Reprinted 2021, 279 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-039-8.This book is broken up into two main sections. The first is a general history of the organization along with its exploits. The second section is an alphabetical roster of its officers and enlisted men. These entries of the roster include, wherever possible, rank or status of officers and others, names of vessels served upon, length of service, native county, and, in main cases, information about their heirs and descendants.

By: Beverly Fleet, Pub. 1940, Reprinted 2021, 239 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-790-4. Essex County was created from OLD Rappahannock County in 1692. This volume is a consolidation of 2 volumes of books into one user friendly volume that Mrs. Fleet published back in 1940. This book includes Wills & Deeds from 1711-1717.

Louisiana has been home, by birth or adoption, to numerous literary greats. But among that talent, there's an under-celebrated cohort: Black women. Due to lack of education and opportunity, their record is fairly brief, but over the past century they have been responsible for a flowering of literature that portrays the Black experience through poetry, fiction, plays, essays and journalism. The writers profiled here have not gone wholly unrecognized though--far from it. Some have been honored with prestigious awards and have found a readership large enough to put them at the forefront of the national literary scene. Beginning with Alice Ruth Dunbar Nelson--a fiery activist, columnist and storyteller in the late nineteenth century--the work extends to Fatima Shaik, named 2021 Louisiana Writer of the Year. Join Ann B. Dobie on this celebration of Louisiana literary talent.

Established in 1774 by the famed pioneer James Harrod, the city of Harrodsburg was the first European heritage town west of the Allegheny Mountains. With the discovery of a number of mineral springs in the area, several local residents thought that the springs could be turned into a tourist attraction. During the early nineteenth century, Greenville Springs, Harrodsburg Springs and Graham Springs became some of the most popular spas and hotels in the South, and Harrodsburg became known as the Saratoga of the South. These springs offered rest, relaxation and accommodations for the entire family. Join historian Bobbi Dawn Rightmyer as she revisits the stories behind how simple mineral springs turned a small town into a nationwide vacation hotspot.

Perhaps the best way to describe this roster is by explaining what it is not. As hard as I tried to make it so, I cannot claim it is a comprehensive list of all North Carolinians who served the Confederacy on, or near, the water. It is this author's humble attempt to document a group of men all too often under appreciated and superficially treated by historians of the conflict. North Carolina men and boys serving in the land forces were well documented by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources' on-going multi-volume series North Carolina Troops, 1861 - 1865: A Roster. The fact that North Carolina naval personnel had no such annotated roster was sufficient justification for me to develop such a roster. It is my hope that by preserving and publishing the names and such service information as could be found that the Tar Heels who served the Confederate naval service may receive the recognition they so richly deserve.