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Battle of the Amazons

Tragic Feats of a Heroine—A Female Pitched Battle—Sanguinary Results of Jealousy.

The Nashville Union of Saturday last tells the following extraordinary story:

One of the most sanguinary deeds growing out of jealousy, and one of the highest exhibitions of female courage we have seen any account of for many a day, occurred a few days since near the Last Tennessee line in the edge of North Carolina, bordering on Blount county. The account which we abbreviate from the several reports seems miraculous. The parties represented are creditable and respectable.

It appears that the wife of James Davenport became jealous of a young girl named Kate Jackson, represented as being quite handsome and lovable. Quarrels and contentions were fierce and frequent between the two ladies.

Posted inUS Civil War

March 1, 1861 – A Tennessee Editor on Jefferson Davis and the Confederate States

The Nashville Democrat of the 16th inst. has a slashing article on President Jefferson Davis and the new Confederacy, from which we extract as follows:

This same blusterer, in a speech few years ago, ventured to slander the Tennessee volunteers. We know what we say; when we assert that, with all his bluster, Tennessee could, if so disposed, subdue the whole Cottonocracy in a short time. He calculates now on the soldiers of Tennessee to aid him in his wicked and fiendish purpose of breaking up this glorious government.

He is as proud and as vain as Beelzebub. He thinks that he holds the “kingdoms of the world, and the powers thereof,” in the hollow of his band. He is looking for the English Government to bow to him. He says the English Government will acknowledge the Cottonocracy.