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The Night Riders achieved their success through violence, illegal, vigilante actions, and terrorism. [10] In order to protect themselves from the government, some Night Riders gained election into office in affected Dark Patch regions. [1] They gained control of elected judicial positions and officers of the counties.
The Black Patch Tobacco Wars were a period of civil unrest and violence in the western counties of the U.S. states of Kentucky and Tennessee at the turn of the 20th century, circa 1904–1909. The so-called "Black Patch" consists of about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee.
Boone County, Arkansas, is a county containing Harrison (see below) and Zinc, home of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leader Thomas Robb. Clay County, Arkansas, forbade Black people as late as 1945. [15] Craighead County, Arkansas, forbade Black people as late as 1945. [15] Greene County, Arkansas, forbade Black people as late as 1945. [15]
A stream in Chicot County, Arkansas, called Whiskey Chute, was named in 1855 for Murrell's raid on a whiskey-carrying steamboat that was sunk after it was pillaged. [18] From Record Group 25, "Prison Records for the Main Prison at Nashville, Tennessee, 1831-1922," Murrell was born in 1806, most likely in Williamson County, Tennessee.
The counties simultaneously supplied over 20,000 soldiers to each side of the conflict. [71] [72] Representatives for most counties were seated in both state legislatures at Wheeling and at Richmond for the duration of the war. [73] Attempts to secede from the Confederacy by counties in East Tennessee were checked by martial law. [74]
This is a list of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures.The counties are named primarily for Confederate politicians and military officers. Most counties are located in former Confederate States, whilst seven counties are located in what was the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), a territory that was aligned and controlled by the Confedera
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Morgan counted 11 dead and 40 wounded raiders. [11] Among the dead Federals was the civilian toll keeper who perished near his tollgate. Raiders killed a Lutheran minister, Reverend Peter Glenn, on his farm, 4 miles (6 km) from the battlefield, and stole horses from several other farmers. [10]