Showing posts with label charles m. hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charles m. hamilton. Show all posts
Monday, May 26, 2014

#74 The Battle of the Flowers (100 Great Things about Jackson County, Florida)

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Azaleas in bloom at Riverside Cemetery The bloodless 1867 confrontation remembered today as the "Battle of the Flowers" is #74...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

The Attack on the Watson Farm (February 7, 1868)

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William J. Purman As Reconstruction era violence continued to escalate in Jackson County during the winter of 1868, the forces of Bureau...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Charles M. Hamilton: A Carpetbagger's Disingenuous Defense

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Marianna in 1890 (22 years after the McKay Farm raid) In the last article, I discussed the January 1868 raid on the McKay farm in Jackso...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Raid on the McKay Farm (January 1868)

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Freedmen working a farm. The Battle of the Flowers had ignited passions in Jackson County (see The Battle of the Flowers ) and tensions ...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Battle of the Flowers (Part Two)

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Flowers and Confederate Graves at Riverside Cemetery To read part one of this article first, please visit The Battle of the Flowers (Par...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Battle of The Flowers (Part One)

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Charles M. Hamilton The straw that broke the camel's back with regard to relations between Freedmen's Bureau officials Charles M...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Secret Meetings, Night Riders & the Lincoln Brotherhood in Jackson County

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William J. Purman Library of Congress In the early summer of 1866, Charles M. Hamilton was reinforced at the Freedman's Bureau in M...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Freedmen, Crime and the Courts in the Summer of 1866

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Jackson County during the Reconstruction era The railroad was merely projected at that time. Continuing with my discussion of the Recon...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

"...His name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."

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Charles M. Hamilton And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And powe...