Antebellum Christmas in Giles County by Claudia Johnson Christmas in antebellum Giles County would hardly be recognizable to those accustomed to the present-day commercial Christmas which begins with the after Thanksgiving Day sales and ends with a New Year’s Day...
November 24, 2024, marks 160 years since Campbellsville experienced the tragedy of the Civil War firsthand. That morning in 1864 just as most families were finishing breakfast and beginning their workday, 4,000 Union cavalrymen under the command of Gen. Edward Hatch...
Benefit of Clergy Does Not Mean What You Think it Does by Claudia Johnson Looking back through the Giles County court records, one comes across many cases where a person was convicted of a felony but pled “benefit of clergy” and basically go free. In the early days of...
Campbellsville History from A Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County, Tennessee by James McCallum, 1876 Published by The Pulaski Citizen, Pulaski, Tennessee, 1928 SEC. SIX – CAMPBELLSVILLE AND BIG CREEK John Dickey, Esquire, father of...
