Shortly after the June 8thsecession of Tennessee, a group of Unionists gathered at Strawberry Plains to discuss the election results and what could be done about it. The discussion almost certainly was one of anger at the “tyranny of the military power and the still greater tyranny of a corr...
when it was learned that Arnold had planned to betrayWest Pointto the British, Wayne moved promptly to safeguard the fort. In 1781 he was sent south to assist themarquis de Lafayette, and at Green Springs,Virginia, on July 6, he engagedLord Cornwallis’s larger army but extricated himself ...