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 William J. Harris
William J. Harris was born in Henry county, Tennessee, December 25, 1857, and is one of the most prominent and widely known pioneers of western Texas, closely connected with its history and development from the early days of the stage coach and other evidences of frontier existence.
Harris was appointed deputy collector of customs at Lanoria, Arizona, on the Mexican border and filled that position for three years, when he was transferred to El Paso as mounted inspector of the customs department.
Harris by reason of his connection with the old state lines formed a very wide acquaintance in western Texas and is today one of its representative and honored citizens with a circle of friends almost co- extensive with the circles of his acquaintance.
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 Biography of Isham Green Harris. TNGenNet Inc. TNGenWeb Project, Autobiographies, Biographies, and Diaries of Our ...
Isham G. Harris, as he was known, was born 10 February 1818, son of Isham Green and Lucy (Davidson) Harris, in Franklin County Tennessee, near Tullahoma.
Harris was instrumental in the formation of the Provisional Army of Tennessee, forerunner of the C.S.A. Army of Tennessee.
Harris was still nominally governor but driven from the state by the enemy, he became a voluntary member of the staffs of Confederate Generals Albert Sidney Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston.
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 History of Pisgah - part 9
Isham G. Harris was born at Winchester and came to this County when a young man and lived awhile with his brother, James T. Harris, who lived on Bradshaw Creek.
At the Battle of Shiloh, General A- S. Johnston fell mortally wounded and died in the arms of Isham G. Harris.
Isham G. Harris, in speaking of this sad incident to Dr. Jesse Mayes, of this place, afterward said, I learned just there, there was a wide difference between war on paper and war on the field.
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 Historical Text Archive: Articles: Confederate Political Leaders and the War in the Western Theater
This background makes it all the more surprising that Gideon J. Pillow was the man whom Isham Harris selected to be the commanding general of Tennessee's forces as he set about organizing a state military establishment in the wake of secession.
Harris feared that drawing all of Tennessee's generals from the ranks of Democratic fire-eaters might leave former Whigs with the idea that this was a Democrats' and fire-eaters' war, and those hotheads should be left to fight it out for themselves.
At the battle of Shiloh, Harris was serving on the staff of General Albert Sidney Johnston, and when that officer was wounded on the afternoon of that battle's first day, Harris was the only staff member present.
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 Isham G. Harris -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Isham Green Harris (February 10, 1818 – July 8, 1897) was an (Click link for more info and facts about American politician) American politician.
Harris was born near (Click link for more info and facts about Tullahoma) Tullahoma, (A state in east central United States) Tennessee.
From 1893 to 1895 (53rd Congress), Harris was (Click link for more info and facts about president pro tempore) president pro tempore of the Senate.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/isham_g._harris.htm   (477 words)

  
 Franklin County, Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During 1863, the Confederate Army of Tennessee retreated through the county, leaving it to Union control thereafter.
Isham G. Harris, Confederate governor of Tennessee, was from Franklin County.
He was restored to political rights after the war, and represented the state in the United States Senate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_County,_Tennessee   (893 words)

  
 Tennessee. General Assembly. Senate. Senate Journal of the Second Extra Session of the Thirty-third General Assembly ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Harris, in relation to an important invention in gunnery, recently perfected by him asking that it be investigated by the General Assembly.
Harris represents that it can be fired with perfect safety fifteen times per minute, and being a truthful and reliable man, we give credit to his representations.
Harris thinks $250 will be about the cost of constructing a three or four pounder, but his means are not sufficient to allow him to do so at his own cost.
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 Clanlo
Harris’ acreage was part of a 5,000-acre tract purchased in 1783 by John Rice; the North Carolina land act of the same year made it possible for Rice to acquire 130,000 acres in Tennessee, including the original site for the town of Memphis.
Isham Harris, after losing the 1853 governor’s race to Andrew Johnson, moved from Paris, Tennessee, in order to begin practicing law in Memphis with his brother.
When Harris was pardoned and subsequently returned to Memphis, he insisted that he had taken $150,000 not $70,000, but that by the end of the war he only had $3,000 left.
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 HARRIS, Isham Green (1818-1897) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Horn, Stanley F. “Isham G. Harris in the Pre-War Years.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 19 (September 1960): 195-207.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Isham G. Harris (Late a Senator from Tennessee).
“Isham Green Harris, Civil War Governor and Senator from Tennessee, 1818-1897.” Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1977.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=H000243   (63 words)

  
 Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans Document Archive
Constitution of the Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Speech of Tennessee Gov. Isham G. Harris to a special legislative session, in which he calls for a referendum on a secession convention, as given January 7, 1861.
Speech of Tennessee Gov. Isham G. Harris to a special legislative session, in which he calls for a second referendum on secession, as given April 25, 1861.
tennessee-scv.org /archive.htm   (458 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Isham Green Harris (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Isham Green Harris[I´shum] Pronunciation Key, 1818–97, American political leader, b.
Franklin co., Tenn. Admitted to the bar in 1841, he was elected in 1847 to the Tennessee senate.
Harris, a states' rights Democrat, served (1849–53) in Congress and was (1857–61) governor of Tennessee.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Harris-I.html   (206 words)

  
 SAVAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Isham G. Harris, the War Governor of Tennessee, was the especial target of his spleen, and in Jefferson Davis’ ability he had scant confidence.
He was a political contemporary of Andrew Johnson and Isham G. Harris, notable figures in Tennessee politics.
In 1889, while in the Legislature, he filed a protest against Harris’ election as United States Senator that was so virulent that it was not permitted to go upon the Journal.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
After much study and prayer, Harris Chapel took a leap of faith and became a ‘station church’ in 1995, purchasing the half-ownership in the parsonage from the Pleasant Grove congregation, and receiving the first pastor devoted solely to the work and ministry of Jesus Christ through Harris Chapel.
Harris Chapel’s strengths, which are many, include a devoted core of workers, strong singing and music, fine buildings, and ardent believers and disciples in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Harris Chapel notes with pride that B.H. Brandon and Virgil Tipps entered the ordained ministry from this congregation, and that in 1974, James Clardy was ordained in the sanctuary by Bishop H. Ellis Finger, Jr.
www.gbgm-umc.org /harrischapel/History.htm   (507 words)

  
 Isham G. Harris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Isham Harris verde (de febrero el 10 de 1818 - de julio el 8 de 1897) era político americano.
Al parecer, cuando Harris aprendió que Lincoln había designado a Andrew Johnson como gobernador militar de Tennessee, Harris, mientras que no dimite formalmente, dejado de hacer cualquier esfuerzo verdadero de funcionar como el gobernador, sirviendo como oficial de personal en el ejército confederado, primero para Albert Sidney Johnston y entonces para José E. Johnston.
A partir la 1893 a 1895, Harris era favorable tempore del presidente del senado.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/is/Isham%20G%20Harris.htm   (298 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Arthur Harris
Samuel Harris was born April 21, 1763 at Mount Pleasant, Nova Scotia and married Elizabeth Evans Jefferson (1779-1845) on June 4, 1798.
According to the notes of Mary Ann Harris (1806-1889), who was a sister to Robert Jefferson Harris (grandson of Robert), Robert Jefferson was the son of Stephen Jefferson, who was a brother of Thomas Jefferson, father of President Thomas Jefferson of the United States.
He was born February 29, 1707/8, and intermarried 1739, with Jane Randolph, of the age of 19, daughter of Isham Randolph, one of the seven sons of that name and family, settled at Dungeoness in Goochland.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/h/a/r/Andrew-G-Harris/GENE1-0013.html   (875 words)

  
 Lower Broad was busy steamboat stop in late 1800s - Wednesday, 05/14/03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tennessee's governor, Isham G. Harris, informed the state Senate on April 27, 1861, of the ''seizure and plunder of the boat'' two days earlier.
Harris, a lawyer who was governor 1857-62, was a Franklin County native whose family later moved to Paris, Tenn. His April 14, 1861, reply to Lincoln's war secretary's request for defensive troops for the Union had included this language:
Harris later fled to Mexico and then to England, before returning to Memphis in 1867 to practice law.
tennessean.com /learn-nashville/archives/05/03/32683171.shtml?...   (683 words)

  
 Confederate States of America Commemorative Silver Dollars & Merchandise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
After the attack, Johnston returned to his original position with his uniform shredded in several places and the sole of one boot had been cut in half.
One of General Johnston's aides, Governor Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, saw Johnston reel in the saddle and asked him if he was hurt.
Harris found a wound in his leg and Johnston bled to death at 2:30 p.m.
www.csasilverdollar.com /johnston.html   (1068 words)

  
 The Fall of a Confederate Commander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The first item is a letter scribbled in Preston's notebook by Isham G. Harris, a former Governor of Tennessee and a volunteer aid on General Johnston's Staff.
Harris was right next to the general when he was wounded.
I found him in the arms of Gov Harris, wounded as I thought, but he did not recognize me, as he was dying and swallowing a little spirits, I thot he would revive but Govr Harris remarked it was all over.
www.thehistorynet.com /cwti/blfallofaconfederatecommander   (598 words)

  
 Shiloh National Military Park - Park Administration and History - 1954 Administrative History of the Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Committee members in the Senate included the powerful John Sherman of Ohio, brother of General William T. Sherman; Colonel William F. Vilas of Wisconsin, a member of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee; and Isham G. Harris of Tennessee.
Senator Harris had served on the staff of General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh and was with the famous Confederate commander at the time of his death.
Congressman Henderson was charged with actual preparation of the Shiloh bill, and at the 1894 meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee he reported on his progress, giving a reassuring appraisal of the attitude in Congress toward the movement to establish the park:
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 CSACW Shiloh Battlefield Tour - Stop Twelve- Johnston's Death Site - Led by Steven E. Woodworth
Both Breckinridge, a former U.S. vice president, and Tennessee governor Isham G. Harris, who was serving as a volunteer aide to Johnston, tried unsuccessfully to move the regiment forward.
Laughing, he flapped the loose sole and joked to Gov. Harris, “They almost tripped me up that time.” He then dispatched Harris to carry orders to another part of the field, and for the next few minutes none of his staff was with him.
When Harris returned from his errand and found Johnston on the point of losing consciousness, there was still a chance to save the general’s life by prompt application of a tourniquet above the wound, but neither Harris nor the others nearby realized the nature of Johnston’s wounds or the remedy.
www.civilwargazette.com /csacw/tours/shiloh/johnston_field_notes.htm   (836 words)

  
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The 5th section of the Schedule to the amended Constitution, declares all laws, ordinances and resolutions, or acts done in pursuance thereof, under the usurped State Government, after the 6th of May, 1861, unconstitutional, null and void, from the beginning.
The plaintiff in error was commissioned, under an Act of the 18th of November, 1861, by Governor Harris, to take from the citizens of the county, their guns.
The plaintiff in error was appointed, in 1862, by Isham G. Harris, then acting Governor of the State of Tennessee, under an Act passed by the Legislature the 18th of November, 1861, and duly commissioned, under the provisions of that Act, to take from the citizens of the county, their guns.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/smith_v_ishenhour.txt   (846 words)

  
 CHC Chapter1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The United States government decided that they had this right, the result of which was, a four years of bloody war, which claimed the lives of thousands of both the North and the South's young men.
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, for volunteers to go into the army of the Confederacy, there were four companies from Warren and six companies from adjoining counties, which assembled at Estill Springs, where most of them were mustered into service of the state for a period of twelve months.
On May 24, 1861, these companies left their camp at Estill Springs and proceeded to Camp Trousdale, near Gallatin, where they were organized into a regiment about the first of June 1861.
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 Isham G. Harris - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Isham G. Harris - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 cwla - Shiloh Battlefield Tours - 1 Death of General Johnston 2 File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris, a volunteer aide, discovered Johnston reeling in his saddle near this point, and led him down to the protected ravine on your right.
The tree trunk to your left stands at the site of the oak tree under which General Johnston was found mortally wounded.
Attended by Governor Isham G. Harris, General Johnston died quickly from loss of blood.
civilwarlandscapes.org /cwla/states/tn/sh/places/1jd02.htm   (272 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Harris, G to I
Harris, Harry — of Burrton, Harvey County, Kan. Democrat.
Harris, Imogene — of Milan, Gibson County, Tenn. Democrat.
Harris, Isham Green (1818-1897) — also known as Isham G. Harris — of Memphis,
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/harris4.html   (499 words)

  
 Tennessee. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
However, after the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s call for troops, the pro-Confederate element, led by Gov. Isham G. Harris, canvassed the state, and on June 8, 1861, another referendum approved secession by a 2/3 majority.
The Confederates did manage to hold onto Knoxville until Sept. 1863, and their cavalry, particularly the forces of Gen. N.
Hood made a last desperate attempt to regain the state late in 1864 but was defeated at the city of Franklin (Nov. 30) and annihilated at Nashville (Dec. 15–16) by Federals under G. Thomas.
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 The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Harris, David B. (sketch, 7:322), 72, 91, 102
Harris, Isham G. (sketch, 7:159): Hood and, 250; on Army of Tenn. strength, 374, Spring Hill, 251, Tenn. campaign, 248-49; Ls from, 248-49, 268; E by, 193; mentioned, 68, 92
Harris, Thomas A. (sketch, 10:251): Davis and, 399; L from, 4-5
cohesion.rice.edu /humanities/pjdavis/PubVol.cfm?doc_id=5815   (549 words)

  
 P.G.T. Beauregard's Report of the Battle of Shiloh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
To these gentlemen was assigned the last sad duty of accompanying the remains of their lamented chief from the field, except Captains Brewster and Wickliffe, who remained and rendered valuable services as staff officers on April 7.
Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, went upon the field with General Johnston, was by his side when he was shot, aided him from his horse, and received him in his arms when he died.
Subsequently the Governor joined my staff and remained with me throughout the next day, except when carrying orders or employed in encouraging the troops of his own State, to whom he gave a conspicuous example of coolness, zeal, and intrepidity.
www.swcivilwar.com /BeauregardShiloh.html   (2814 words)

  
 Tennessee -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
However, after the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops, the pro-Confederate element, led by Gov. Isham G. Harris, canvassed the state, and on June 8, 1861, a second referendum approved secession by a two-thirds majority.
The one third opposed represented mainly E Tennessee, where slavery was a negligible factor and where Andrew Johnson (then U.S. Senator) and William G. Brownlow had strengthened the natural Union loyalties of the people.
Hood made a last desperate attempt to regain the state late in 1864 but was defeated at Franklin (Nov. 30) and annihilated at Nashville (Dec. 15-16) by federal troops under G. Thomas.
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