Ducktown

And instead of writing "an Alabama hamlet called Ducktown," I should have written "a Tennessee hamlet called Ducktown."

An Exchange on TVA Pulsipher, Allan G. 1984

The tunnel is eighteen miles from the Balsam mountains, and thirty-four miles from Pigeon River, and is on what is known as the Ducktown branch of the Western North Carolina Railroad.

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Why Mr. Pulsipher has thrown in the added information about Ducktown I don't know unless he wished to imply more error still; but as I explained, the Ducktown smelter and the damage it wrought predated TVA.

An Exchange on TVA Pulsipher, Allan G. 1984

Hence I was compelled to burn that pontoon bridge as well as the railroad bridge (partially) when my troops retreated from Ducktown.

Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

But I did not at any time contemplate a retreat that day farther back then Spring Hill, as is shown by my direction to Ruger to have his regiment from Ducktown join him there that night.

Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

Stoneman, now in Kentucky, organizing the cavalry forces of the Army of the Ohio, will operate with Schofield on his left front -- it may be, pushing a select body of about two thousand cavalry by Ducktown or Elijah toward Athens, Georgia.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Ducktown, Tennessee, etc., are irregular lenticular bodies in schists and other rocks, but all show relationship to igneous rocks.

The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

One captain in the regiment, from Ducktown, was said never to have worn a pair of shoes until he entered service.

Two boys in the Civil War and after, 1912

There is no chance to wire ahead, either, from this Ducktown siding.

Guy Garrick 1908

There is no chance to wire ahead, either, from this Ducktown siding.

Guy Garrick 1908