Traces the descendants of the following Junkin couples: Launcelot Junkin and Elizabeth Campbell who married prior to 1799; James Junkin and Mary Chittick who married July 8, 1800 and John Junkin and Jane Junkin who married Aug. 19, 1829. Many of these couples' children immigrated to Canada from Ireland.

A look at the life and prolific writings of Stonewall Jackson's sister-in-law

The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No...

William Scott was born ca. 1738, according to tradition on the ocean between Ireland and America. He married Helen Montgomery near Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1767. They had four children, 1769-1774. The family migrated from Pennsylvania to the Louisville, Kentucky, area, in 1778 with George Rogers Clark. He helped defend the supplies on Corn Island when Clark conquered Vincennes, Indiana, and the Illinois country. He died in 1804 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Descendants listed lived in Kentucky, Indiana, and elsewhere.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a provocative analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains one of the most catastrophic conflicts in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy. But one general had a vision that could win the War for the South—Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Jackson believed invading the eastern states from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender, but failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee. In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Jackson as the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book.