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William Bradford was born in Virginia in 1771. He moved to Kentucky at an unknown date. Settling in Muhlenberg County in 1799, he became a local leader. [1] He won distinctions that included a commission as deputy sheriff, a captaincy in the county militia, and was elected four times to the Kentucky House of Representatives.
The fort was used as the headquarters of Confederate General Samuel B. Maxey. The last remaining Confederate Army troops were commanded by General Stand Watie , a principal chief of his nation until the end of the war. He surrendered to Union forces at Fort Towson on June 23, 1865. The post was abandoned at the close of the Civil War.
William Dutch or Tahchee (Cherokee: ᏔᏥ, romanized: Tatsi; c. 1790–1848) was a prominent leader of the Cherokee "Old Settlers" in the American West. He was renowned as a notorious enemy of the Osage tribe , and a spokesman for the Cherokee.
Fort Towson, now the Fort Towson Historic Site, 896 N 4375 Road in the town of Fort Towson, is 215 miles southeast of OKC, 175 miles south of Tulsa, in Choctaw County. The Fort Towson 200th ...
In the three decades before the American Civil War he published polemics in support of states' rights and the protection of chattel slavery, earning notoriety as one of the so-called Fire-Eaters. Ruffin was present at the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 and fired one cannon shot at the fort. This gave rise to the legend that Ruffin fired ...
Deputy Fire Chief William Handy salutes the 343 firefighters who died on September 11, 2001 during a special 9/11 Memorial ceremony on Wednesday, September 11, 22024 at Savannah Fire headquarters.
Tishomingo became chief of the Chickasaw when they started on the trail and led the people until his death in 1838 en route, near the Arkansas River. Neither he nor Colbert, who died en route in 1839 at age 75, reached the new Chickasaw territory. He died near Fort Towson, Indian Territory, just before the people reached their new lands. [1]
Will Rogers’ historic ranch house, owned by the famous social commentator, actor and performer, and the Topanga Ranch Motel, built by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, were victims of the ...