Use tennessee in a sentence
Sentences ending with tennessee
- But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
- We cannot allow you to resign until things shall be a little more settled in East Tennessee. [7]
- The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
- Applying the principle to your case, my idea is that Halleck shall menace Columbus and "down river" generally, while you menace Bowling Green and East Tennessee. [7]
- I am glad to hear you speak hopefully of Tennessee. [7]
- At certain seasons there was an almost continuous procession of herds of cattle and sheep passing to the Eastern markets, and of trains of big wagons wending their way to the inviting lands watered by the Tennessee. [4]
- Among the invitations that came was one from General O. O. Howard asking him to preside at a meeting to raise an endowment fund for a Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. [5]
- James Sawyer of Tennessee. [5]
- Secondly, the direct statement of Sharpe's men that Ewell has gone to Tennessee. [7]
- In no proper sense can it be considered other than an independent movement of, at least, a portion of the loyal people of Tennessee. [7]
Sentences containing tennessee two or more times
- In this region the river passes from Kentucky into Tennessee, back into Missouri, then back into Kentucky, and thence into Tennessee again. [5]
- Beyond lay the Tennessee hills and conspicuous White-Top Mountain (5530 feet), which has a good deal of local celebrity (standing where the States of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina corner), and had been pointed out to us at Abingdon. [4]
- Why that Tennessee Land--" "Never mind the Tennessee Land, Colonel. [5]
More example sentences with the word tennessee in them
- Instantly the fickle youth's dreams forsook the magic eye-water and flew back to the Tennessee Land. [5]
- That Tennessee village would set up a monument to Billings, then, and his autograph would outsell Satan's. [5]
- Now if somebody would come along and offer $3,000--Uh, if somebody only would come along and offer $3,000 for that Tennessee Land. [5]
- They did so with those they took from a boat that was aground in the Tennessee River a few days ago. [7]
- It comprised the Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin. [9]
- East Tennessee, and was for Washington. [5]
- Why, look here--Shakespeare walked backwards before that tailor from Tennessee, and scattered flowers for him to walk on, and Homer stood behind his chair and waited on him at the banquet. [5]
- True, I am very anxious for East Tennessee to be occupied by us; but I see and appreciate the difficulties you mention. [7]
- The Hawkinses are under the weather now, but their Tennessee property is millions when it comes into market. [5]
- He had been to Tennessee to buy a drove of hogs, but when he got there pork was dearer than he calculated, and he declined purchasing. [5]
- He told me to take the exchanges and skim through them and write up the "Spirit of the Tennessee Press," condensing into the article all of their contents that seemed of interest. [5]
- A man is to pay our family $40,000 for the Tennessee Land! [5]
- It was impossible to get much information about our route into Tennessee, except that we should go by Paint Rock, and cross Paint Mountain. [4]
- It is not to be confounded with the French Broad, which originates among the hills of Transylvania, runs northward past Asheville, and finds its way to the Tennessee through the Warm Springs Gap in the Bald Mountains. [4]
- No annals in the world's history are more wonderful than the story of the conquest of Kentucky and Tennessee by the pioneers. [9]
- The river was the Tennessee, and the place the resort of the Chickamauga bandits, pirates of the mountains, outcasts of all nations. [9]
- One side of the street is in Tennessee, the other in Virginia. [4]
- The movements in the same direction more extensive though less definite in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, should not be overlooked. [7]
- But Shakespeare and the rest have to walk behind a common tailor from Tennessee, by the name of Billings; and behind a horse-doctor named Sakka, from Afghanistan. [5]
- I presume that the conducting of a presidential election in Tennessee in strict accordance with the old Code of the State, is not now a possibility. [7]
- The President regards that and the movement against East Tennessee as one of the most important movements of the war, and its occupation nearly as important as the capture of Richmond. [7]
- And Kentucky and Tennessee, wayward, belligerent infants who had outgrown their swaddling clothes, were heard from again. [9]
- A lady from Tennessee asked me if I had ever seen anything to compare with it--she thought there could be nothing in the world. [4]
- Another thing he tells you, in a speech made at Memphis in Tennessee, shortly after the canvass in Illinois, last year. [7]
- Moving with great swiftness and secrecy up the Tennessee, in company with the gunboats of Commodore Foote, he had pierced the Confederate line at the very point Sherman had indicated. [9]
- During a short stay in East Tennessee he was in a citizen colonel's tent one day, talking, when a big private appeared at the door, and without salute or other circumlocution said to the colonel: 'Say, Jim, I'm a-goin' home for a few days. [5]
- The border States, so called, were not uniform in their action, some of them being almost for the Union, while in others--as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas--the Union sentiment was nearly repressed and silenced. [7]
- If the enemy shall concentrate at Bowling Green, do not retire from his front, yet do not fight him there either, but seize Columbus and East Tennessee, one or both, left exposed by the concentration at Bowling Green. [7]
- It did not seem wise, to her, to put one's entire earthly trust in the Tennessee Land and never think of doing any work. [5]
- Again, I cannot see why the movement on East Tennessee would not be a diversion in your favor rather than a disadvantage, assuming that a movement toward Nashville is the main object. [7]
- I have a seat on the stage at Haverley's Theatre, tonight, where the Army of the Tennessee will receive Gen. Grant, and where Gen. Sherman will make a speech. [5]
- It is the same Tennessee land that had "millions in it" for Colonel Sellers--the land that would become, as Orion Clemens long afterward phrased it, "the worry of three generations. [5]
- Providence had apparently reserved and set apart the Knobs of East Tennessee for this purpose. [5]
- He is not pleased with the tardiness of the movement toward Chattanooga, and directs that no force be sent here if you cannot do it without breaking up the operations against that point and East Tennessee. [7]
- There was no place for the location of such a school like the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
- Everywhere indeed, in our industrial age,--in a society inclined to materialism, scholarship, pure and simple scholarship for its own sake, no less in Ohio than in Tennessee, is the thing to be insisted on. [4]
- He says an order has already been made by which those troops have already moved, or soon will move, to Tennessee. [7]
- So a mile or two of Missouri sticks over into Tennessee. [5]
- Even Washington observed, once, that when the Tennessee Land was sold he would have a "store" carpet in his and Clay's room like the one in the parlor. [5]
- Never lose sight of the Tennessee Land! [5]
- This upper branch of the Tennessee is a noble stream, broad, with a rocky bed and a swift current. [4]
- Could he be of service to you or to Tennessee in any capacity in which I could send him? [7]
- An exchanged general of ours leaving Richmond yesterday says two of Longstreet's divisions and his entire artillery and two of Pickett's brigades and Wise's legion have gone to Tennessee. [7]
- They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa. [7]
- Frank J. McLean, of Ninth Tennessee Cavalry now, or lately, at Johnson's Island, for Capt. [7]
- I deem it of importance that the loyal regions of east Tennessee and western North Carolina should be connected with Kentucky and other faithful parts of the Union by rail-road. [7]
- The locality was Obedstown, East Tennessee. [5]
- If we mistake not we have heard her name mentioned in connection with the sale of the Tennessee Lands to the Knobs University, the bill for which passed the House last night. [5]
- But it will not be long--the Tennessee land----" He stopped, and was conscious of a blush. [5]
- It gradually turns northward, and, joining the Nollechucky, becomes part of the Tennessee system. [4]
- He might get New York, and that would have elected in 1844, but it will not now, because he must now, at the least, lose Tennessee, which he had then, and in addition the fifteen new votes of Florida, Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin. [7]
- We realized how necessary this accomplishment is, for between the Tennessee line and Asheville, North Carolina, there is scarcely a mile of trotting-ground. [4]
- He went to Nashville, in Tennessee, There his kind friends he could not see; He died among strangers, so far away, They did not know where his body lay. [5]
- The northern terminus must connect with some existing railroad, and whether the route shall be from Lexington or Nicholasville to the Cumberland Gap, or from Lebanon to the Tennessee line, in the direction of Knoxville, or on some still different line, can easily be determined. [7]
- Silas Hawkins of Missouri, in reference to a lease of a portion of their valuable property in East Tennessee. [5]
- It is a matter of no small anxiety to me, and which I am sure you will not overlook, that the East Tennessee line is so long and over so bad a road. [7]
- The father, John Marshall Clemens--a lawyer by profession, a merchant by vocation--had brought his household to Florida from Jamestown, Tennessee, somewhat after the manner of judge Hawkins as pictured in The Gilded Age. [5]
- Massachusetts is unlike Louisiana, Florida unlike Tennessee, Georgia is unlike California, Pennsylvania is unlike Minnesota, and so on, and the unlikeness is not alone or chiefly in physical features. [4]
- On Thursday of last week, two ladies from Tennessee came before the President, asking the release of their husbands held as prisoners of war at Johnson's Island. [7]
- Or if a large part of the western army be brought here to McClellan, they will let us have Richmond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. [7]
- He's got enormous landed property in Tennessee, I think. [5]
- This done, a joint movement from Cairo on Memphis; and from Cincinnati on East Tennessee. [7]
- But my distress is that our friends in East Tennessee are being hanged and driven to despair, and even now, I fear, are thinking of taking rebel arms for the sake of personal protection. [7]
- An experimental institution is in contemplation in Tennessee which will do for that state what the Industrial School at Zurich did for Switzerland. [5]
- The Hawkins' blood is good blood, all the way from Tennessee. [5]
- The tears were in his eyes, he was so glad he was going to see his old Tennessee and his friends once more. [5]
- To take and hold the railroad at or east of Cleveland, in East Tennessee, I think fully as important as the taking and holding of Richmond. [7]
- If we can hold Chattanooga and East Tennessee, I think the rebellion must dwindle and die. [7]
- Once more Louise had good news from her Washington--Senator Dilworthy was going to sell the Tennessee Land to the government! [5]
- That tailor Billings, from Tennessee, wrote poetry that Homer and Shakespeare couldn't begin to come up to; but nobody would print it, nobody read it but his neighbors, an ignorant lot, and they laughed at it. [5]
- It provided also for the purchase of sixty-five thousand acres of land, (fully described) for the purposes of the University, in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
- The whole struggle for Tennessee will have been profitless to both State and nation if it so ends that Governor Johnson is put down and Governor Harris put up. [7]
- Sellers would come for me, I would go and stay with him a while, till the Tennessee land is sold. [5]
- What a spectacle for an Army of the Tennessee! [5]
- And when his foot finally pressed his own threshold, the value he held the entire Tennessee property at was five hundred dollars--two hundred down and the rest in three equal annual payments, without interest. [5]
- We made our first camp on a green little island at the mouth of the Cherokee, as we then called the Tennessee, and there I set about cooking a turkey for Colonel Clark, which Ray had shot. [9]
- When the judge's first bankruptcy came upon him, a homely human angel intruded upon him with an offer of $1,500 for the Tennessee Land. [5]
- How handy for fighting this would have been in the war, if Tennessee had gone out and Virginia stayed in. [4]
- What a spectacle far an Army of the Tennessee! [5]
- I've made him engage to let the Tennessee Land bill utterly alone! [5]
- What should be done is to hold what we have in the West, open the Mississippi, and take Chattanooga and East Tennessee without more. [7]
- But as we descended in Tennessee the country and the farms decidedly improved,--apple-trees and a grapevine now and then. [4]
- This was Johnson County, Tennessee, a strong Republican county but dog-gone it, says Mr. Egger, it's no use to vote; our votes are overborne by the rest of the State. [4]
- When this great country of ours began to develop, the streams moved westward; one over what became the plain states of Ohio and Indiana and Illinois, and the other across the Blue Ridge Mountains into Kentucky and Tennessee. [9]
- I believe it could be shown that the government here has deliberately armed more than ten times as many captured at Gettysburg, to say nothing of similar operations in East Tennessee. [7]
- Could not a cavalry force from General Thomas on the upper Cumberland dash across, almost unresisted, and cut the railroad at or near Knoxville, Tennessee? [7]
- I was told by the physician that a Southern climate would improve my health, and so I went down to Tennessee, and got a berth on the Morning Glory and Johnson County War-Whoop as associate editor. [5]
- A few years before the outbreak of the Civil War it began to appear that Memphis, Tennessee, was going to be a great tobacco entrepot--the wise could see the signs of it. [5]
- What has since been formed into the States of Maine, Kentucky and Tennessee, was, I believe, within the limits of or owned by Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. [7]
- Had this report been adopted, not only the Northwest, but Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi also would have been free; but it required the assent of nine States to ratify it. [7]
- Meantime I was become better known; and was one of the people appointed to respond to toasts at the banquet given to General Grant in Chicago--by the Army of the Tennessee when he came back from his tour around the world. [5]
- So tomorrow I'll be up bright and early, make my little old collection, and mosey off to Tennessee, on my own hind legs, with a rousing good-by to Gadsby's. [5]
- I shall also be glad to have your impression as to the effect the late operations about Murfreesborough will have on the prospects of Tennessee. [7]
- Washington had refused, at the last moment, to take $40,000 for the Tennessee Land, and had demanded $150,000! [5]
- While we fully appreciate your wish to remain in Tennessee until her State government shall be completely reinaugurated, it is our unanimous conclusion that it is unsafe for you to not be here on the 4th of March. [7]
- Governor Johnson, like any other loyal citizen of Tennessee, has the right to favor any political plan he chooses, and, as military governor, it is his duty to keep peace among and for the loyal people of the State. [7]
- Half the church and half the aisle was in Kentucky, the other half in Tennessee. [5]
- I saw him an hour ago --he's off for Tennessee early tomorrow morning--as usual; said he calculated to get his claim through and be off before night-owls like me have turned out of bed. [5]
- Hawkins enjoyed the admiration these prodigies compelled, but he always smiled to think how poor and, cheap they were, compared to what the Hawkins mansion would display in a future day after the Tennessee Land should have borne its minted fruit. [5]
- And with an activity and a suddenness that bewildered Obedstown and almost took its breath away, the Hawkinses hurried through with their arrangements in four short months and flitted out into the great mysterious blank that lay beyond the Knobs of Tennessee. [5]
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