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At the nadir of his addiction, Mr. Cash went to Nickajack Cave in Tennessee, crawled in as far as he could and essentially lay down to die.
Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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The crime scene I think was about at mile marker 17, so it ` s 17 miles from Nickajack.
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MCBRAYER: The start of the trail is near the Nickajack.
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That tradition started during the 1986 SuperBass tournament on Lakes Nickajack and Chickamauga in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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That tradition started during the 1986 SuperBass tournament on Lakes Nickajack and Chickamauga in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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That tradition started during the 1986 SuperBass tournament on Lakes Nickajack and Chickamauga in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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As before explained, on the 3d of July, by moving McPherson's entire army from the extreme left, at the base of Kenesaw to the right, below Olley's Creek, and stretching it down the Nickajack toward Turner's Ferry of the Chattahoochee, we forced Johnston to choose between a direct assault on Thomas's intrenched position, or to permit us to make a lodgment on his railroad below Marietta, or even to cross the Chattahoochee.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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McPherson drew out of his lines during the night of July 2d, leaving Garrard's cavalry, dismounted, occupying his trenches, and moved to the rear of the Army of the Cumberland, stretching down the Nickajack; but Johnston detected the movement, and promptly abandoned Marietta and Kenesaw.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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During the day Cox's division forced the passage of Olley's Creek and secured a position on the head of Nickajack, which was spoken of by Sherman as the only success of the day.
Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield
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In 1782, in consequence of the destruction of their towns by Sevier and Campbell, they abandoned this location and moved farther down the river, where they built what were afterwards known as the "five lower towns," viz, Running Water, Nickajack, Long Island, Crow town, and Lookout Mountain town.
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