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Definition of Jonesboro
1. Noun. A town in northeast Arkansas.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jonesboro
Literary usage of Jonesboro
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Volunteer Soldier of America by John Alexander Logan, Cornelius Ambrose Logan (1887)
"jonesboro. What General Sherman has called his flank movement was now to take place.
Failing to cut off the enemy's retreat by the use of his cavalry, ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1911)
"But while the constitutional convention was wrangling at jonesboro, the Legislature
met at Newbern. And now that the damage was done, all haste was made to ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"The hogs arrived on the connection between the jonesboro, Lake City, & Eastern
Railway and the appellant's line about 9:30 p. M., and were received by the ..."
4. Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major-general, United States Army by Oliver Otis Howard (1908)
"Sherman was mainly waiting for the effect of this cavalry movement against the
railroad about jonesboro. The first report that came to him, August 1st, ..."
5. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Edwin Erle Sparks (1908)
"CHAPTER VII THE jonesboro DEBATE [Chicago Press and Tribune, September 15, 1858]
THE DEBATE AT jonesboro The third debate between Lincoln and Douglas takes ..."
6. Camp, Field and Prison Life: Containing Sketches of Service in the South by W. A. Wash (1870)
"iI left jonesboro jail at eleven o'clock on the night of the 15th, and was
conducted by Jailor Boyd, through the dark and rain, to the residence of Colonel ..."
7. History of the Thirty-seventh Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers: Its by George H. Puntenney (1896)
"I think, the army began a flank movement on jonesboro, which was south of Atlanta
some ... The army was then making a great flank movement on jonesboro. ..."
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