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Margaret Ann Martin was born in Greenfield, Nelson County, Virginia on January
20th, 1834. Her parents were Hudson Martin and Nancy Thorpe. Hudson Marton was
born in Virginia in 1765. At the close of the Revolutionary War, Giddeon Martin, his after
moved to Kentucky. Giddeon Martin had fought for seven years in the Revolution under
General George Washington.
Hudsont Martin and Nancy Thorpe were married March 22nd, 1824. The
following children were born to this union John, their only son, and daughters Jane,
Mahalley, Margaret Ann, Nancy and Jennie. They were raised in Virginia.
Margaret Ann's mother died in 1859 and her father in 1861. Margaret Ann was
married to Andrew Jackson on December 16th, 1858. They loved in Broxton County,
West Virginia. Andrew Jackson, joined with the Confederate Army and was made
Captain of Company B-19th Virginia Cavalry.
Mrs. Jackson was ordered north in the fall of 1863. All of her possessions and
property were confiscated and she was allowed to take only her two saddle bags of
clothing, approximately sixty pounds of baggage. She was carried on horseback, under a
flag of truce through the Confederate lines to her house in Virginia.
During his four years of service in the army, Captain Jackson came home to visit
his wife three times. On one visit, he only had time for dinner with her and had been gone
about fifteen minutes when the house was surrounded by soldiers. Once he came for a
visit overnight and at another time for nine days.
At the close of war, Captain and Mrs. Jackson moved to South Carolina two years
in the fall of 1865hey started West by ox teams, stopping in Bandera Couny, Texas, where
they remained until 1873. Mr. Jackson was running a sawmill there.
They left Texas, May 1873 with three wagons and ox teams, driving five yoke of
oxen to one wagon and four yoke each to the other two wagons. They avaraved from
twenty to twenty five miles per day. At night, when camped, two oxen were necked
together and belled.
They spent that winter in Trinadad, Colorado, where they could have good range
for there cattle, remaining there until May 1874 when they started north on the third leg of
their journey, going out by Larma City, Pueblo, Denver and down to the great Salt Lake,
hence to Corrine into Idaho, down the Snake River to Munds Ferry, then out over the
Powder Range into backer City, Oregon. From here they traveled into Grand Round
Valley, crossed the Blued mountains into Walla-Walla and continued up the Columbia
As the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and the wife of an assistant to the confederate president, Jefferson Davis, chestnut always found herself surrounded by the wealthy and high-end confederacy’s gentlemen and their views on the civil war. Mary recorded her most significate impressions of the conflict from the begging when the first shot in Charleston South Carolina went off. Mary Chesnut's diary is a glorious and rich with vivid comments on race, genders, wealth status, and power from those who had enough but wanted more within a nation divided Mary Boykin Chesnut was an incredibly intelligent woman, whose wartime experiences brought to live intimate and important details of southern culture. Since its publication in 1905, Chesnut’s diary has become compelling reading. Chesnut’s wartime diary begins when Mary learns of Lincolns election in 1860 later catching more focus when she grew to worry about her husband’s well-being and who was in charge of giving and following Jefferson’s orders without any hesitation. Mary’s carries her persona as a feminist but she seems sad that women are not able to do nothing outside the husband’s hands in one passage
Deere moved to the West in the 1830’s to Great Detour, Illinois. Since that part of Illinois didn’t have blacksmiths, Deere quickly got to work. Deere had barely settled, yet he was already becoming famo...
"The Santa Fe Trail Lives On!" Welcome to SFTNet, the latest manifestation of the Santa Fe Trail saga. This service is designed for trail buffs, students, researchers, travelers on the trail--in short, anyone with an interest in historic or contemporary developments along the Santa Fe Trail. What Is The Santa Fe Trail? As many who read this introduction will know, the Santa Fe Trail is an ancient land route of communication between the desert Southwest of what is now the United States and the prairies and plains of central North America. In the Southwest it was also part of a longer route that ran down the Rio Grande into what is now northern Mexico. American Indian peoples used the route to trade the agricultural produce of the Rio Grande Valley and the bounty of the plains, such as jerked buffalo meat and buffalo hides. When the Spanish conquistador Onate came to New Mexico in 1598, he and his soldiers followed this ancient route as they explored the plains and traded with the peoples there. During the next two centuries the Spanish gained an intimate knowledge of the plains and the routes between the Mississippi-Missouri river systems and the Southwest. Then, in 1821, a trader from Missouri, William Becknell, came to Santa Fe along what was to become known as the historical route of the Santa Fe Trail. He opened the Santa Fe Trail as a commercial route between what was then ...
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were spread out a few hundred feet apart along the Wynooche River. All of a
To ensure the fast pace delivery of the mail, the Pony Express purchased 600 broncos, mostly thorough breads, mustangs, and morgans. Still the horses weren’t all needed. They also had to find men who would be able to handle the adverse weather conditions, Indians and be able to ride for 75 miles with out stopping. The riders were generally under 20 years of age and weighed no more than 120 pounds. They had to be excellent horsemen and have experience with guns. The Pony Express was a relay of mail running day and night.
My great great great great grandpa, Thomas Doyel was in charge of putting a group of men together to go to the Gold Rush. They had 15 groups who traveled with wagons and horses with cattle following.
In Clarksburg, Virginia on January 21st, 1824, Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born. Later he would earn the nickname “Stonewall” and go down in history as one of the great generals of the American Civil War. Jackson graduated from West Point in 1846 and started his official military career with the US Army. He was a brevet second lieutenant in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. He displayed excellent leadership in battle, and was soon promoted to major. On February 29th, 1851, Jackson stepped down and retired from his position in the army to become an instructor at Virginia Military Institute located in Lexington, Virginia. When the war started, he joined the Confederate Army and accepted orders as a Colonel of the Virginia Militia.
prices. The Oklahoma land run took place that year, with settlers lining up at a
The Monroe administration acted quickly and sent General Andrew Jackson to the region and gave him “full power to conduct the war as he think best” effectively giving him free reign. Jackson marched from Nashville to Fort Scott with 500 soldiers, 1000 militiamen and 1800 Creek warriors intent on squashing the Seminoles and if possible taking Florida from Spain; from there Jackson marched into Florida on a path of destruction. Jackson’s forces first completely destroyed th...
John Paul or Karol Józef Wojtyla (also known as St John Paul II) was well known to be a Pope, elected on 16th October 1978. He had first made history in 1978 where he had become the first non-Italian pope in 400 years. He was an advocate for human rights as he used his influence politics to create change.
pope became the most authoritative figure in Rome, which helped him become not only a spiritual leader, but also a political figure.
year after he was born. My nephew would occasionally visit his father but never understood why
Seeing maimed animals are not pleasant images. Those images sometimes appear across computer and television screens. The advocacy groups who place these images in the public’s view are trying to jolt people into the realization that abuse exists. For every ten seconds that goes by an animal is getting abused (“Animal… Statistics”). One statistic states that “71% of pet-owning women entering women’s shelters reported that their batterer had injured, maimed, killed or threatened family pets for revenge or to psychologically control victims; 32% reported their children had hurt or killed animals” (“Animal… Violence”). Animal cruelty comes in several forms, some of which people do not know. There is animal experimenting, animal abuse, and mistreatment of animals. and through revealing the results from research, one discovers the horrific effects of animal abuse.
All in all, emotional pain, physical pain, or the extent of the abuse, is mistreatment towards any animal and should not be tolerated but instead be brought awareness to. It is our job to be the voice for the creatures who cannot speak up for themselves. Followed by the empathy of humans, especially that of children, I believe that by bringing awareness to this social injustice will result in a more thoughtful and compassionate community who will have the power and responsibility to make choices in the best interest of animals. It will give the community a sense of pride to stand up for something so important to society. Finally, the actions that we can take in order to bring about the awareness of animal cruelty will have a significance to ensuring the safety of pets and other animals across the globe.