Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in northeast Georgia and flowing about 240 km (150 mi) northward across southwest North Carolina and into southeast Tennessee, where it joins the Tennessee River.
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Examples
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Project consisted of excavation of Indian mound on Hiwassee River, Cherokee County.
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It is possible that he may have entered the country of the Cherokees on the Hiwassee River, though this is by no means certain.
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On September 26 the South Carolina army, 1,860 strong, under Colonel Andrew Williamson, and including a number of Catawba Indians, effected a junction with Rutherford's forces on Hiwassee River, near the present Murphy, North Carolina.
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We loitered two days gathering information from the people of the place in reference to the strength of the garrison and examining for ourselves the earthworks, and marched to the Hiwassee River just below the village of Charleston.
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
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Hiwassee River and learn what progress was making in rebuilding the railway bridge burned there by the retreating Confederates.
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
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While we were at the railway bridge which Federal soldiers were rebuilding across the Hiwassee River at Charleston we encountered
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
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Hiwassee River, with two divisions of the Twenty-third corps and with General Schofield in our midst.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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On the 1st of May Schofield was at the Hiwassee River in touch with the left wing of Thomas's army, whilst McPherson was closing in on the right.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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Sherman immediately went forward, and on the 1st of December he was over the Hiwassee River, approaching Loudon.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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The plant, located on the Hiwassee River, is a key supplier of building block chemicals to many companies in Tennessee and around the world.
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