Yes, I think it got the name for the War of 1812.....but remember also Texas. (a group of Tennessee men went there to help out.) And before all of that, the Battle of King's Mountain and fighting in South Carolina. Men from what is today Tennessee were always ready to go and help out in a fight. It astounds me the distance they would travel. But then, in the early years these men were at the Falls of the Ohio, some even went to Sandusky Ohio area, all over what is today Georgia, Alabama, etc. They were ready to go out at short notice to chase Indians who were a threat. I think the same could be said of all those early frontier men - the ones in Kentucky were also at Battle of New Orleans, as were some from North Carolina. So if you have an early ancestor in the southern 'frontier' area, check military records and you will probably find him. The battle of Point Pleasant in Lord Dunmore's War was a group out of Shenandoah Valley of VA - but they had already moved onto the Holston river area of TN. Mary Turney Miller >Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:51:51 -0400 >From: Richard Forston <rforston@prodigy.net> >To: Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <v03130305b7137e55da3f@[209.255.3.21]> >Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails]Criticism of introductions (long) >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Just remember, the Volunteer State became known as that as a result of the >volunteers in the War of 1812, not the Civil War. > > > >>Tennessee was called the volunteer state for a reason. I would imagine the >>northern volunteers made life uncomfortable for the southern volunteers after >>the end of the Civil war. Feelings still run high in the south about "The >>War Between the States" >> >>Bev. >