The Tennessee
The New River: Civil War to Tva
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 1992
393 pages
978-1-4616-3280-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity," this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished. Southern Classics Series.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-3280-1 (9781461632801)
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04/1992
J S Sanders and Company Incorporated
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Person
Tennessean Donald Davidson was a member of the Vanderbilt Fugitive poetry group and a leading Southern Agrarian. In addition to his poetry and histories, Davidson's works include The Attack on Leviathan and Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- I. Amphibious Warfare: Paducah to Fort Henry
- II. The Battle of Shiloh
- III. The Strategic Importance of Muscle Shoals
- IV. Chickamauga and its Sequel
- V. Guerrillas versus Gunboats
- VI. Forrest Wreaks Havoc among the Gunboats
- VII. The Cost of Civil War
- VIII. Parson Brownlow and the Ku Klux Klan
- IX. Kingdom Coming
- X. The Last Great Days of the Steamboats
- XI. The Uneasy Reign of King Kilowatt I
- XII. Trials by Jury and Otherwise
- XIII. At Last! The Kingdom Really Comes!
- XIV. The TVA Makes a New River
- XV. The Workings of TVA
- XVI. Navigation, New Style
- XVII. Green Lands and Great Waters
- XVIII. The Battles of TVA
- XIX. Journal of A Voyage from Chattanooga to Paducah on the Good Steamboat Gordon C. Greene
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
