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Dan Stover
Daniel Stover (November 26, 1826 – December 18, 1864) was an American farmer in Tennessee. He was a son-in-law of Andrew Johnson (who became president of the United States in 1865). Stover was one of the leaders of the East Tennessee bridge burnings, a guerrilla warfare action of the American Civil War that was intended to clear the way for federal occupation of the region, which generally opposed secession. He died of illness in 1864. Biography Born in Carter County, Tennessee, Stover married Andrew Johnson's younger daughter Mary Johnson Stover, Mary Johnson in 1852. Stover had a "fine plantation" in the Watauga Valley. In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War, the family was living together in Carter County. Daniel Stover owned a farm worth and a personal estate worth . The couple had three children: Lillie, Sarah, and Andrew Johnson Stover. During the first autumn of the American Civil War, Stover participated in a guerrilla warfare action called the East Tennessee bridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Col Daniel Stover II (26 Nov 1826 – 18 Dec 1864)
In geomorphology, a col is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two Summit, peaks.Whittow, John (1984). ''Dictionary of Physical Geography''. London: Penguin, 1984, p. 103. . It may also be called a Gap (landform), gap. Particularly rugged and forbidding cols in the terrain are usually referred to as notches. They are generally unsuitable as mountain passes, but are occasionally crossed by mule tracks or climbers' routes. The term col tends to be associated more with mountain rather than hill ranges. It is derived from the French ''col'' ("collar, neck") from Latin ''collum'', "neck". The height of a summit above its highest col (called the key col) is effectively a measure of a mountain's topographic prominence. Cols lie on the line of the drainage divide, watershed between two mountains, often on a prominent ridge or arête. For example, the highest col in Austria, the ''Obere Glocknerscharte'' ("Upper Glockner Col", ), lies between the Kleinglockner () and Grossglock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
