The Battle of Jettena Junction

Ben Lewis, A.W. Bennett

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Rhe Union had turned the tide of the war by the summer of 1863. The confederate States were in totla disaray following the devistating loses at Gettysburg and Vicksbug in the summer of 1863. Adding to the insults, nature had delived a deverstating drought to the south. The South needed a miricle and what better one than to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln on route from Washington to Gettysburg where he was to speak on behalf of the fallen.
The Battle of Jettena Junction is a remarkable work. This intriguing combination of fiction work and history textbook subverts and reverses the expectations of historical fiction, using plot as the backdrop for history rather than history as the backdrop for plot—a history book with a dash of fiction rather than a fiction book with a dash of history.

Sujets

• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
• Histoire
• History
• War
• Abraham Lincoln

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• Publié par: Balboa Press AU
• Date de parution: 31 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781504323192
• Langue: English

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THE BATTLE OF JETTENA JUNCTION
 
DESTINATION: JETTENA JUNCTION
 
 
 
 
A.W. BENNETT and BEN LEWIS
 
 
 

 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-5043-2305-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-5043-2319-2 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020921446
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 01/12/2023
CONTENTS
FORGING AHEAD
PROLOGUE
01     JETTENA JUNCTION
02     OVAL PLATE PLATEAU SETTLEMENT
03     THE BATTLE OF OVAL PLATE SETTLEMENT
04     BEAUREGARD CLAYTON
05     CLAYTON’S HOME GUARD
06     MURONE-THE MONK
07     THE NEW NATION IN TURMOIL
08     CANTON PRISON CAMP
09     NOTABLE BREAKOUTS
FROM GETTYSBURG TO ……
PREFACE
10     CANADIA BOUND
11     THE RAID ON CORWALL
12     EMBROILED IN AN UNDESIRABLE CONFLICT
13     OLD FOES-NEW ALLIES
14     THE UNSUNG HERO
15     THE KIRTLAND RAID
16     ROUND ONE-HICKOK VERSES TIGAR
NATIVE AMERICANS
17     NATIVE AMERICANS JOIN THE CRUSADE
BLOODY SUNDAY
PREFACE
18     THE CONFEDERACY CAPITAL
19     MITCHELL MACYREE
20     RICHMOND’S GLOOMY CLANDESTINES
21     ESPIONAGE IN RICHMOND
22     INDY SCABBOTTOM
23     THE RICHMOND SOCIAL CLUB
24     LADY IN BLACK
25     THE RAID ON RICHMOND
26     THE DISPLACED GETS REVENGE
27     OFF TO MEET PRESIDENT DAVIS
28     THE STIFLE ACT
29     THE SPIRIT REBELLION
30     THE SPARK THAT IGNIGHTED RICHMOND
31     THE CONFRONTATION AT THE CONFEDERATE WHITE HOUSE
32     THE RAID ON THE WHITE HOUSE
33     CITY HALL
34     THE WHITE HOUSE MASSACRE
35     RUNNING THE GAUNTLENT
36     BATTLE OF THE MIDWAY POINT TAVERN
37     ESCALTION OF VIOLENCE
38     THE DRAFT RIOTS
39     THE ‘PEN’ ERUPTS
40     FULL SCALE RIOTING
41     THE VICTIMS
42     RACIAL TENSIONS
43     BROWN ISLAND’S EXPLOSION
44     THE NIGHT OF TERROR
45     THE INFERNO THAT RAVISHED RICHMOND
46     HICKOK’S ESCAPE
47     THE ESCAPE FROM CASTLE THUNDER
48     NO STOPPING THE BLAZE
49     TOTAL FIRESTORM
50     THE TRAIN DISASTER
51     THE GREAT SPIRIT FLOOD OF RICHMOND
52     THE FRENZIC AND FRANTIC EXODUS
53     TOTAL INFERNO
54     WHO TO BLAME?
55     THE ESCAPE FROM RICHMOND
56     MACYREE TIGHTENS THE SCREWS
57     USING THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
58     PETER DEEGAN
59     WASHINGTON BOUND
NOTES
REFERRENCES-ARTICLES AND COMPOSES WHERE FACT CAME FROM WIKIPEDIA
Forging Ahead
PROLOGUE
PENNSYLV ANIA
P ennsylvania is one of the thirteen original states of the United States, entering the Union on December 12, 1787, making it second after Delaware. Pennsylvania means “Penn’s woodland.” It was named in honor of Admiral William Penn, whose son, William Penn, founded the colony as a haven for members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and religious minorities. Penn’s father sent him to Ireland to oversee his estates in county Cork. In Ireland Penn’s religious convictions brought him into conflict with the authorities, and he was imprisoned. On his return to England, Penn began work on a religious tract, The Sandy Foundation Shaken. In 1681, Penn obtained from the Crown, in payment for a debt owed to his father, a grant of territory in North America. With several friends, he sailed for America in September the following year, and in October he held his famous interview with Native American tribes. He planned and named the city of Philadelphia, and for two years he governed the colony wisely and well.
The state is known as the Quaker State, often referred to as the Keystone State. This term was apparently first used because of the state’s political importance, though it is also appropriate because of its location in the middle of the thirteen original states. With six states to the north and six to the south, Pennsylvania was the keystone in an arch of states. Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania whilst Philadelphia the largest city of the state.
Before Europeans arrived in what is now Pennsylvania, the area was inhabited by several major Native American groups. In the eastern river valleys lived Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Delaware, who called themselves the Lenni Lenape, meaning original people. Along the Susquehanna River, the 447 mile long water course rises in central New York, flowing across Pennsylvania before emptying into the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, were the Susquehannock, a group who spoke an Iroquoian language. Originally living in the Wyoming Valley along the upper Susquehanna, the Susquehannock later moved to the lower Susquehanna River basin, until they were mostly absorbed into the Delaware and Iroquois.
For many years, European settlers in Pennsylvania lived at peace with the native peoples, who exerted an important influence on the colony. William Penn, the founder of the colony, treated the Native Americans as equals and scrupulously paid for land received from the local chiefs. In a treaty negotiated in 1862 in Philadelphia, he established a peace and friendship that lasted half a century. Because the Native Americans aided the early settlers, Penn’s colony suffered no periods of hardship and starvation, which were common in other colonies. The native groups’ trails were the original routes by which traders and settlers reached the interior. But later conflicts, mostly over settlement of traditional native lands, forced the eventual migration of most Native Americans from the state.
01
JETTENA JUNCTION
M id the spring of 1755 was bitterly cold. The bulky, rounded fur trader, former war scout for the British during the French-Indian Wars, William Lamanasity, was returning to Perryville on the northern tip of Chesapeake Bay. From beneath the thick animal hides he wore to protect him from the cold, a bushy salt and pepper colored full facial hair face, with large beaming ghostly eyes, surveyed the surrounds. Following the Codorus Creek, Native American Algonquian language, for “rapid water”. Moving steadily east-wards, along what was to become the South Branch, just north of the Pennsylvania-Maryland Border. Passing through the widest gap of the river, he hit some rapids.
The weather had turned bad for that time of year. As night fell, on the Sunday of April 4, that year, Lamanasity saw a glitter of light from fires off in the distance on an inlet off the eastern bank of the creek. This glitter caught his attention, drawing him up the inlet of the yet un-named river to a set of cave type dugouts on the eastern side of the looping river. As he drew nearer, he noticed a small band of Native Americans, the Susquehannock Indians, members of Native North American people who lived along the Susquehanna River in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. They occupied the region from the Susquehanna River to Chesapeake Bay, claiming dominion over several smaller tribes on both sides of the bay. The Susquehannock were a powerful people, defying the invading Iroquois, until the latter defeated them about 1675. Noble and heroic, they were also described as aggressive, warlike, imperialistic, and bitter enemies of the Iroquois. A part of the tribe fled to the Roanoke River and others subsequently settled at Conestoga, near what is now Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They rapidly decreased in number until 1763, when those remaining were massacred by European settlers. The Susquehannock society was a confederacy of smaller tribes, who occupied scattered villages along the Susquehanna River. Most Native American Nations of the time had clans.
It was one of these Clans, The Delaware Indians, William Lamanasity stumbled across on his journey, sheltering from the approaching storm in these caves. They greeted the stranger and welcomed him into their camp. He spent a week there with the locals Natives Indians, learning their culture and ways of life and that they have been displaced from their homes by the growing fur traders and Colonials and the recent French - Indian wars. Duri