Category Archives: Hardeman

Proposed Public Land Seizure (1866)

Thad STEVENS, from the committee on ways and means, has presented a sweeping confiscation bill. He proposed to seize all the public lands in the Southern States as conquered property. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 05 May 1866, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

May Day (1866)

According to previous notice, the school children met at the tanyard-spring, on Tuesday last, and enjoyed themselves finely. That enterprising and affable gentleman, Mr. Paul T. JONES, on whose grounds the picnic was held, had prepared an impromptu table, and added no little to the many good things that had

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