The American
Civil War Story With the Declaration of Independence in 1776, 13 former British
colonies became the United States of America, but by the 1830s it was
clear the new nation was divided. Adam IP Smith explains how the issue
of slavery, above all, created discord between north and south, and
forced political tension to rise. (pdf)
The
Photographic History of The Civil War
In Ten Volumes, Francis Trevelyan Miller - Editor-in-Chief and Robert S.
Lanier, Managing Editor. Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with
Text by many Special Authorities (1911) (pdf)
Scotland and the American Revolution
Scottish historian Andrew Mackillop explored his homeland’s role during
the American Revolution. He argued that despite fighting for the losing
side in the war, many Scots gained land and increased their social
status after the war.
How the Army Runs
A Senior Leader Reference Handbook for the US Army (2013) (pdf)
American
Military Biography
Containing the Lives and Characters of the Officers of the Revolution
who were most distinguished in achieving our National Independence, Also
the life of Gilbert Motier La Fayette, Major-General in the Continental
Army,, Marshall of France and Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard
(1830) (pdf)
The Life and
Military Character of Maj. Gen. Scott
Together with his Views upon the Principal Moral, Social and Political
Topics of the Age, With full Particulars of the Surrender of the Castle
and City of Vera Cruz. (1847) (pdf)
The Justice and Necessity of the
war with our American Colonies examined A Sermon Preached at Inveresk, December 12, 1776 being the Fast-Day
appointed by the King, on account of the American Rebellion by Alexander
Carlyle, D.D. Minister of Inveresk, and Almoner to his Majesty (1777) (pdf)
Official
Reports of Generals Johnstone and Beauregard of the Battle of Manassas,
July 21st, 1861 (pdf) Also Official Reports of the Battle of 10th Sept., Brig. Gen. Floyd
commanding; Engagement at Oak Hill, Mo., Brig. Gen. Ben McCulloch
commanding; Engagement at Lewinsville, Sept. Wth, Col. J. E. B. Stuart
commanding; Engagement on Gieenbrier River, Oct. 3d, Brig. Gen. H. R.
Jackson commanding; Engagement at Santa Rosa Island, Oct. 8th, Maj. Gen.
Braxton Bragg commanding; Engagement at Leesburg, Oct. 21st and 22d,
Brig. Gen. N. G. Evans commanding; Bombardment of Forts Walker and
Beauregard, Nov. 11th, Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Drayton commanding;
Engagement at Piketon, Ky.,Col. John S. Williams commanding; Battle in
Alleghany Mountains, Dec. 1Sth, Col. Edward Johnson commanding; Battle
of Chustenahlah, which took place in the Cherokee Nation, on the 26th of
Dec, 1861, Col. James Mcintosh commanding: Battle of Belmont, Nov. 7th,
Leonidas Polk, Major-General commanding. (1862)
New York
State's Progressive Men An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography compiled by Mitchell C.
Harrison (1900) in 2 volumes.
Patrick
Sinclair
By William L. Jenks (1914) (pdf) Lieutenant-General Patrick Sinclair
(1736 – 31 January 1820) was a British Army officer and governor in
North America. He is best remembered for overseeing the construction of
Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island in what was to become the U.S. state of
Michigan.
A Voice to the
United States of America
From the Metropolis of Scotland; Being an Account of Various Meetings
held in Edinburgh on the Subject of American Slavery upon the return of
Mr. George Thompson from his mission to that Country (1836) (pdf)
War between the States
A whole section on the War between the States and the
many Scottish influences
Scots Descendants This is a page of mini bios of Scots descendants mostly
in America. In here you can learn some of the background of people of
Scots descent and how they contributed to the American way of life.
Historians and
the Scottish-American Connection The links between Scotland and America
stretch back over three centuries. Perhaps one can officially date them
from 1650, when a group of Scots gathered in Boston to create the first
Scots’ Charitable Society, an organization to aid fellow immigrants
who had fallen upon hard times.
Westward Ho
From 1860 to 1862, Pony Express riders
carried mail n relays from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, CA. Riders were out of
"St. Joe" had only a brief gallop to the wide Missouri River where ferry boats
conveyed them over the river.
Hood's Texas Brigade
John Bell Hood was born June 29, 1831 in Bath
County Kentucky. His father, Dr. Julius Hood taught John the aspects of medicine
from a young age but John was not interested in becoming a doctor. He longed to go
to West Point Academy and become a cavalry officer so he could serve his country as
his grandfather and uncle had during the Revolutionary War.
Sam Houston
Houston was strongly criticized for his
actions and military strategy of the Battle of the Alamo. Some of his peers thought
he was cowardly to Santa Anna but at the Battle of San Jacinto, he had mustered enough
troops to defeat the Mexican army. Houston was injured in the San Jacinto skirmish
and was sent to New Orleans for treatment. Upon his return to Tejas, he was elected
president of the new Republic of Texas.
The Revolutionaries Cornwallis decided to divide his own force into three parts. One would be left to
guard Camden under Lieutenant Colonel Lord Francis Rawdon. Tarleton and his 1,100
cavalry and foot soldiers would become a fast-moving hammer that would pursue Brigadier
General Daniel Morgan and finally crush him against an anvil. Cornwallis's third
force, which would hover in North Carolina and intercept the rebels as they fled from
Tarelton's onslaught.
Trails to nowhere and to
everywhere In the early 1800's, American history reveals the old west had lots of trails as the
western migration continued to lead thousands of easterners west to explore the new
frontier, seek their fortune, stake their claim, homestead a portion of the large
land grants that were available to them.
Reflections of a 20th
century man I was born John William Fulks in Marceline, Missouri on
November 6, 1920, the same day Warren G. Harding was elected president of the USA during
the final days of Woodrow Wilson's administration. It was just 2 years after the end of
World War I, the "war to end all wars" and only 8 years since the Titanic sank
off the Newfoundland coast on April 15, 1912.
The Skidmore family of Braxton
County He served as a private in the Virginia Militia and participated in the Battle of
Point Pleasant October 1774 under the command of his brother, Captain John Skidmore.
Tails of the Trails of the Smoky
Hill River The old western frontier of the 1800's was a wild and
woolly beginning of the western migration of settlers, those coming from the Eastern
states to look for fortune and fame in the untamed territories.
Mexihoma
Upon the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848, the northern and western boundaries
of Texas had not been settled with Mexico. No Man's Land is the Neutral Strip with metes
and bounds as follows: One half degree south of the 37th parallel latitude and three
degrees east and west of the East 103rd degree longitude, a rectangle of land bordered by
Kansas on the north, Texas panhandle on the south, New Mexico on the west and the Ok.
Cherokee Strip on the east.
Presbyterian Pioneers in Western
Pennsylvania The Reverend Charles Clinton Beatty (c.1715-1772) was born in County Antrim,
Ireland, to John Beatty, a British army officer, and Christiana Clinton, aunt of George
Clinton, the first governor of New York.
Governor Patrick Henry
Colonel Rogers Clark from Virginia, with Governor Patrick Henry's help, recruited
Scotch-Irish and German frontiersmen from Southwest Virginia, and from Washington and
Greene Counties Tennessee (then in North Carolina) and rafted his men 1000 miles down the
Ohio River from Pittsburgh (Ft. Pitt), Pennsylvania (on right) in winter to make a
successful surprise attack against British installations in present -day Illinois and
Vincennes, in present-day Indiana.
Robert Forbes
Is now living retired at Carbondale, where more than forty years ago he had his
first experience in Kansas as a coal minor. Thus he was identified with Carbondale in the
height of its prosperity as a mining center.
Longhorn Country
No history of the cattle industry can be told without beginning with Texas and the
Texas Longhorn. Texas was the original home of ranching and became the major blending pot
for the evolution of the history-making Texas Longhorn breed of cattle.
Mississippi and Beyond
Wilmington North Carolina situated on
Cape Fear River, 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, is known for her harbor, accommodating
the large ocean going vessels. The city is located in a highly productive
agricultural district of which many Scots settled centuries ago.
Remember the Alamo
A cry of victory and defeat, heard around the
world for centuries, the last fatal attempt by a handful of frontiersman trained only to
hunt with a squirrel rifle and a Bowie knife who came from all parts of the eastern
territories and gave their lives for freedom's call.
Judge Ochiltree
David Ochiltree came to America in 1739.
Duncan Ochiltree came to America in 1739, no further record...As I read this
record, I surmise that David and Duncan are Lord Ochiltree's two sons. There is no mention
of Lord Ochiltree arriving in America.
The Chisholms
For hundreds of years the Chisholm name
has left significant marks in American History.
Adam Chisholm, captured at Preston and was transported to American on the
Elizabeth and Ann from Liverpool 29 June 1710.
The Old 300
Although many cultures can stake a claim on the settlement of early Texas - mostly
the Spanish, Indians and French - it was the Scots and others of Celtic descent who led
the way in truly taming the wild territory and bringing it forward to a republic.
Civil War Notebook
When 19 year old Daniel Chisholm joined the army, the United States was at war with
itself. Leaving his hometown of Uniontown, Pennsylvania in 1864, Chisholm fought
with Army of the Potomac in the final campaign of the Civil War, as Gen. Grant pushed his
superior numbers in bloody head-on collision with Gen. Lee's dwindling Confederate Army.
A Western Tail
No Man's Land", the "Neutral Strip". or Public Lands, as it was
called variously, was a political and geographic paradox. It was an ungoverned
rectangle of land bordered by Kansas on the north, Texas on the south and New Mexico on
the west, an the Cherokee Strip on the east.
Isaac Tichenor Goodnow
A lot has been said of the new School Marm, was
she a pretty young girl from the East, how much learning did she have, she is too young to
teach these kids and on and on and on. Most of the time, she would live in a Boarding
House, or some family home, depending on what was available. And sometimes she would
be a spinster, or a married lady, or the teacher could be the minister of a local church.
John Andrew Howell
The history in verse by John Andrew Howell was written
at the beginning of the 1900's...and as the reader follows along, read carefully and grasp
the meaning of the messages as they were seen from this very specially gifted person.
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., was born October 31, 1860, in Savannah,
Georgia, and died there January 17, 1927.
Scots-Irish
This article was originally published in The Irish At Home and Abroad journal of
Irish genealogy and heritage (volume 2 #1, 1994/1995). Published four times yearly.
The Alamo - James Bowie
James Bowie was a descendant of the Maryland Line of Bowies who originated in
Stirlingshire, Scotland. Known for his famous "Bowie knife" and a sometimes
reckless adventurer, Jim Bowie is now immortalized as one of the true folk heroes in early
Texas.
General and Mrs Custer
General Custer and his brother, Tom and his wife, Libbie (Elizabeth
Bacon Custer), were of Scottish ancestry. General Custer is of the Wilson-Ochiltree
families.
Medal of Honor
Scots-Irish that won this distinguished award.
Clans of the Ponca
Yes, there was, of course, great intermarriage between the Scots and my mother's
people. The Native culture is as strong as the Scots and the two people were compatible. I
will try to elaborate.
Henry Van Deman Faris
Of Kanopolis, is a Kansas around whom center many associations of territorial and
pioneer times. He is by five years the oldest living pioneer in Kansas west of Salina. He
has been continuously identified with Ellsworth County more than half a century.
Scottish-American Military Society
The Scottish American Military Society was founded and chartered in North Carolina
April 12, 1981, as a non-profit organization.
The Scottish-American History Club
This is part of the Illinois St Andrew Society site and contains a number of their
newsletters which go out every quarter. I was totally amazed at the amount of information
they contained about Scottish-Americans. I highly recommend you visit this site as
there is some great reading which I just know you will enjoy.
Scots and the
American Indians An interesting account of the connections between the Highland Scots and the
American Indians.
The Indian Territory
1861 - 1865 This is an account by Thomas F. Anderson "of the part taken by our Southern
Indians in the war between the States, but have to depend on memory. Strange to say, my
recollection of what took place under my observation in the war with Mexico in 1845 and
'47, is more vivid than that of our last war. But few dates are remembered". The
Scots and Scots-Irish were very involved in this account which is why we've included it.
James Britton
Bailey Britton Bailey was a straight shooting pioneer who endured many
hardships. In stature he was a large man, feared and respected by the
Indians and his neighbors. One of the "Old 300"
Neil McLennan
Early
settler, was born on the Isle of Skye in 1777. He immigrated in 1801 to
North Carolina with numerous family members and friends; in 1816 they
moved to Florida.
Thomas
Spalding Known as Georgia’s Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Spalding was born at Frederica (on St. Simon’s
Island, Georgia) on March 25, 1774. His ancestors were from the
Highlands of Scotland, and were among the band of hardy warriors which
Oglethorpe brought to Georgia to form a bulwark for the New Colony
against the Spaniards in Florida.
General
Lewis Lawrence Griffin Around 1810, a young man named Lewis Lawrence Griffin settled in
Twiggs County. The very poor native Georgian would become president of
the Monroe Railroad and the founder of the city of Griffin.
Teddy Roosevelt The Rough Rider President of the United Sates of America.
The Ringing of a Silver
Bell Bell and Joe had suffered every
insult from the weather as far as the drought was concerned. The
last hammer to fall was the loss of the well. She knew they could not
survive without the precious water for them and for their livestock.
Judge Arthur
MacArthur Father of General Arthur MacArthur and Grand-Father of General Douglas
MacArthur
The Eugenics of PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN His German-Scotch Ancestry Irrefutably Established from Recently Discovered Documents by James Caswell Coggins, A.M., S.T.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (pdf)
John Taylor A Scottish Merchant of Glasgow and New York 1752-1833 by Emily Johnston de Forest (1917) (pdf)
A Scotch Farmer
The true story of Peter Morrison, a
Scotsman, who built up an American farm that today is one of the
conservation showplaces of northern Michigan.
Tracing Our Threads
The Kilbarchan Weaving Project on Display at Folk Art Center, NC
Children of
the Market Place
By Edgar Lee Masters, "This remarkable book is above everything else a
study of Lincoln and Douglas, and as such it is not only able and
fascinating, but strangely timely. A picture humanly attractive and far-reachingly
instructive." —Edwin Bjorkman in the New York Herald (pdf)
One Hundred
Years Ago
An Historical Discourse delivered by the Rev. George Duffield, D.D.
during the Centenary Celebration of the First Presbyterian Church of
Carlisle, P.A., July 1st, 1857. (pdf)
General History
of Michigan
With Biographical Sketches, A complete history of the peninsular state
from its earliest settlement to the present time compiled by Charles
Richard Tuttle (1873) (pdf)
Kidd on Foreign
Trade
By Howard C. Kidd, Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial
Economics, Carnegie Institute of Technology (second edition) (1921)
(pdf)
Notes
on the War in the South
With Biographical Sketches of the lives of Montgomery, Jackson, Sevier,
The late Gov. Claiborne, and others by Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, of
Franklin County, Va., a Member of the Executive of Virginia during the
late War (1819) (pdf)
Eighteenth-Century Scotland
The Newsletter of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Number 1
Spring 1987 (pdf)
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