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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hawkins County, Tennessee.= Official Website =The land was given to William Armstrong as a land grant in the 1780s. His landholding was established as a county in 1787 and was named for Benjamin Hawkins, a U.S. Senator from North Carolina, the state which it was a part of at that time. The county was both Spencer County, State of Fran...
The Battle of Rogersville was a conflict in and around the town of Rogersville, Tennessee on the morning of November 6, 1863, between the Union Army 3rd Brigade, 4th Cavalry Division and the Confederate States Army Jones' Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Brigade and the 8th Virginia Cavalry . Because Federal forces were caught largely by surprise, the Confederates, under Brig. Gen. William E. Jones , were ...