bledsoe

Updated: August 21, 2024

Concerning the proposition made to McGillivray by the inhabitants of Cumberland to become the vassals of His Majesty, I have refrained from returning any precise answer." In his long letter of reply to Robertson and Bledsoe, McGillivray agreed to make peace between his nation, the Creeks, and the Cumberland settlers.

Archibald Henderson - The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790

Alarmed early in the year over the unprovoked depredations and murders by the Indians in several Tennessee counties and on the Kentucky road, Sevier, Robertson, and Anthony Bledsoe had persuaded Governor Samuel Johnston of North Carolina to address Gardoqui and request him to exert his influence to prevent further acts of savage barbarity.

Archibald Henderson - The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790

Johnnie had as yet seen nothing more pretentious than the starched and ruffled flummeries of a small mountain watering-place. This beautiful, peculiar looking garb had something of the picturesque, the poetic, about it, that appealed to her as the frocks worn at Chalybeate Springs or Bledsoe had never done. She had not wanted them. She wanted this.

Grace MacGowan Cooke - The Power and the Glory

On subsequent battle-fields I had no reason to complain of my estimate of time. The first shell from the enemy's guns passed high over my head. I well remember the screech of that missile as it cut through the air and lost itself in the distance. "Too high, Captain Bledsoe," exclaimed our artillery officer, as he planted a shell among the Rebel gunners.

Thomas Wallace Knox - Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and: Residence on a Louisiana Plantation

Isaac Bledsoe and Gasper Mansker, agreeing to travel from here in opposite directions along a buffalo trace passing near the camp, each succeeded in discovering the famous salt-lick which bears his name namely Bledsoe's Lick and Mansker's Lick.

Archibald Henderson - The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790

Or perhaps you would see Miss Bledsoe?" "No, ma'am I that is, Miss Bledsoe is talking with a friend of mine, and I just wandered in here, having nothing else to do." "To be sure! I believe that is a custom of Southern gentlemen." "What is?" I asked, rather abruptly. "Why, to go to houses and wander from room to room until their curiosity is satisfied."

Joel Chandler Harris - A Little Union Scout