Recent Footnote Pages by bgill

• African American Patriots of the Revolutionary War

  In 1775, the citizens of the Massachusetts colony were setting course for a war that would decide the fate of a nation. ~Page One

  by bgill

  Updated 05 Mar 2010 - 49,905 views

  Contributions 8 images, 1 comment, 37 stories

• "The Fall of the Alamo."

  We publish the following account of the "Fall of the Alamo" from the Texas Almanac for 1860. It is beyond a doubt the most authentic account extant.

  by bgill

  Updated 26 Feb 2010 - 16,129 views

  Contributions 14 images, 2 comments, 26 stories

• Harvey Logan, aka Kid Curry

  Curry was born Harvey Alexander Logan in Tama County, Richland Township, Iowa in 1867.

  by bgill

  Updated 11 Feb 2010 - 1,586 views

  Contributions 4 images, 3 comments, 6 stories

• Tecumseh (Tecumtha) ( Tribe : Shawnee )

  c.1768-1813. Tecumseh ("Crounching Tiger" or "Shooting Star") was a major military leader and alliance builder who sought to stop Euro-American expansion…

  by bgill

  Updated 07 Feb 2010 - 8,657 views

  Contributions 2 images, 2 comments, 10 stories

• BLACK TOWNS IN THE OLD WEST

  Oklahoma became a premier haven for African Americans moving Westward from 1865-1920. By 1890, Oklahoma could claim over 137,000 African American…

  by bgill

  Updated 01 Feb 2010 - 2,524 views

  Contributions 6 images, 6 stories

• Henry Berry Lowrie & The Lumbee

  Henry Berry Lowrie or "Henry Berry Lowry" (born c. 1844 – 1847-disappeared 1872) led an outlaw gang in North Carolina during and after the American…

  by bgill

  Updated 29 Jan 2010 - 5,883 views

  Contributions 3 images, 2 comments, 3 stories

• COLONEL ANDREW DONNALLY, JR. and Family

  Profile

  by bgill

  Updated 23 Jan 2010 - 449 views

  Contributions 2 comments, 1 story

• FEMALE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS & SPIES

  Like most historic battles, the U.S. Civil War had its spies--men and women--on both sides. It was a hazardous occupation with few rewards.

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jan 2010 - 41,983 views

  Contributions 36 images, 4 comments, 28 stories

• Underground Railroad

  You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich.…

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jan 2010 - 73,107 views

  Contributions 44 images, 4 comments, 46 stories

• The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803

  The shortest account which one typically hears of the Haitian Revolution is that the slaves rose up In 1791 and by 1803 had driven the whites out of…

  by bgill

  Updated 07 Jan 2010 - 16,715 views

  Contributions 3 images, 3 comments, 15 stories

• Officers and Men of the Texas Republican Army

  Battle of San Jacinto 21st April 1836

  by bgill

  Updated 17 Oct 2009 - 9,345 views

  Contributions 12 images, 5 comments, 29 stories

• Female hangings 1632 to 1900

  It is thought that altogether around 505 women were put to death in the U. S. between 1608 and 1900. At least eight teenage girls were hanged. Hannah…

  by bgill

  Updated 02 Sep 2009 - 16,227 views

  Contributions 1 story

• CONFEDERATE AFRICAN AMERICANS~CIVIL WAR

  Military history of African Americans is that of African Americans in the United States since the arrival of the first black slaves in 1619 to the present…

  by bgill

  Updated 30 Jul 2009 - 15,810 views

  Contributions 18 images, 1 comment, 38 stories

• Confederate Grave Yard found in Campbell County

  Two women’s efforts lead to discovery of burial ground

  by bgill

  Updated 25 Jun 2009 - 634 views

  Contributions 1 comment, 1 story

• TENNESSEE COLORED PENSION APPLICATIONS FOR CSA SERVICE

  "The Negros' pension law passed by the Tennessee Legislature, provides that Negros Pensioned by this Act must have been bona fide residents of this State…

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jun 2009 - 167 views

  Contributions 1 comment, 1 story

• A NATION OF BRAVES

  Honor for Indian Heroism

  by bgill

  Updated 10 Jun 2009 - 603 views

  Contributions 1 comment, 6 stories

• Born a Slave

  Died Free

  by bgill

  Updated 05 Jun 2009 - 7,796 views

  Contributions 8 images, 3 comments, 11 stories

• Vice Admiral Samuel Lee Gravely Jr.

  The first African American Admiral in the U.S. Navy, appointed on April 28, 1971

  by bgill

  Updated 21 May 2009 - 1,054 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment, 1 story

• YOCUM'S INN

  THE DEVIL'S OWN LODGING HOUSE

  by bgill

  Updated 06 May 2009 - 341 views

  Contributions 1 comment, 1 story

• The Trail of Tears

  * ge-tsi-ka-hv-da a-ne-gv-i *Between 1790 and 1830 the population of Georgia increased six-fold. The western push of the settlers created a problem.…

  by bgill

  Updated 13 Apr 2009 - 6,462 views

  Contributions 20 images, 2 comments, 16 stories