Word: cumberlandism
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...Cumberland Forest Festival, Sewanee, Tenn.: seminars in string-playing, choral work, conducting and composition; Roy Harris, director...
Hostile journalists actually thought they had evidence of Sherman's insanity. In the midst of a slow, steady advance toward the Cumberland Gap, the report went, Sherman began to imagine shadowy Confederate cavalrymen in the obscure offing. He ordered a halt, then pulled back in alarm, all quite needlessly...
...Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...
...Whom, the South regarded as the "Francis Marion of the Confederacy." Morgan once marched his men 100 miles across the rugged Cumberland Mountains to strike at a federal garrison in Kentucky, destroyed a huge pile of stores...
Last week, just 25 years after Parson Frakes rode into the Kentucky backwoods not far from Cumberland Gap, the mountaineers gathered at the settlement to celebrate the anniversary. There are now 22 buildings on 750 acres of farm, timber and coal land. The sign over the post office door reads: "U.S. Post Office Frakes...