Tupelo is being extensively milled at present only in the region adjacent to Mobile Ala.
Uses of Tupelo Gum Tupelo gum is now used in slack cooperage, principally for heading.
Since it has become evident that the properties of the wood fit it for many uses, the demand for tupelo has largely increased, and it is now taking rank with other standard woods under its rightful name.
There is also an increasing demand for tupelo for laths, wooden pumps, violin and organ sounding boards, coffins, mantelwork, conduits and novelties.
The passing of this prejudice against tupelo is due to a better understanding of the characteristics and uses of the wood.
A detailed account of the engagement there was made by me many years ago, and is as follows: Colonel Forrest left Tupelo early in June, 1862, with a small staff, for the scenes of his new operations.
At Tupelo the army was thoroughly reorganized by that master hand, Gen.
After the battle of Tupelo he volunteered to remain with the wounded, of whom there were about sixty, in the hands of the enemy.
Stephen Miller in 1863, he succeeded to the command of the regiment, and remained connected with it to the close of the war, participating in the battles of Tupelo and Nashville, and in the siege of Spanish Fort.
His remains were carried to the field of Tupelo and there buried, but have since been removed to Kahbakong cemetery, at Taylor's Falls.
Comfortable lounging-places continually invited me to linger, and at last I sat down under a chestnut oak, with a big broken-barked tupelodirectly before me.
Tupelo tents are larger than laminaria and expand more rapidly.
The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.
Defn: A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States.
If we would behold them In their greatest brilliancy and variety, we must journey during the first period of the Fall of the Leaf in those parts of the country where the Maple, the Ash, and the Tupelo are the prevailing timber.
Being a Federal prisoner, I was removed from Tupelo to Mobile, and there parolled on the 26th of August last.
After my manacles were put on, I was taken back to Tupelo by Barnes and another guard.
We were in the midst of the noise and confusion of a great encampment, as there were in and around Tupelo some fifteen thousand soldiers.
Death is said to be THE great leveller; the dungeon at Tupelo was a great leveller.
The battery remained near Tupelo about two months.
It was general in the army and probably made necessary the retreat to Tupelo when, with better water, the company and army quickly secured usual health.
On July 26th battery left Tupelo for Chattanooga, Tennessee marching through Columbus, Mississippi, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
General Buell had left Corinth about the 10th of June to march upon Chattanooga; Bragg, who had superseded Beauregard in command, sent one division from Tupelo on the 27th of June for the same place.
General Bragg, soon after taking command, as has been previously stated, advanced fromTupelo and occupied Chattanooga.
Subsequently General Price learned that Rosecrans was moving to cross the Tennessee and join Buell; he therefore marched from Tupelo and reached Iuka on the 19th of September.
Up to this time the only infantry marching I had done, beyond drilling and reviews, was the two moves, Tupelo to Sattillo and Sattillo to Baldwin.
For water at Tupelo we dug wells, each company a well, using a sweep to draw it.
I thanked him and bade him a good morning, and started on the road that he had pointed out, not caring whether it led to Tupelo or not, if I could get away from him and his squad.
He told me that he was going round on to the lower Tupelo road in a day or two, and that I had better run with them till that time, and he would put me on to a road where I would find clever people and plenty to eat.
The path I was taking led past the "negro quarters," and then through some fields to the dark cypress and tupelo woods in the rear.
Probably, the name tupelo applies as well to one as to the other, for it is said to refer to the drupe-like fruit; but custom confines the name to the species now under consideration.
The shops and manufacturing plants of ten states use as much tupelo as is cut by all the sawmills in the United States.
The butt cuts of tupelo are so heavy that they float deep, or even go to the bottom.
Its two common names are swamp oak and swamp white oak, yet it is not really a swamp tree, such as the northern white cedar, southern white cedar, cypress, and tupelo are.
The seasoning of tupelo was formerly a problem exceedingly vexatious to the lumberman.
The range of tupelo extends from Virginia along the coast to Florida, northward in the Mississippi valley to southern Illinois, and westward to Arkansas and Texas.
That was the situation from the early settlement of the country where this species is found up to a very recent period when economic conditions began to bring tupelo into notice.
Tupelo is like hickory in one respect--factories use more wood than the sawmills cut.
Tupelo has not figured much in tree literature outside the books of botanists.
This is possible, but most probably tupelo has been confused with red gum which is a well-known substitute for Circassian walnut.
In Illinois and Michigan tupelo is listed among woods manufactured into pianos, organs, mandolins, and guitars.
Black gum and tupelo are members of the family, and are giants compared with the dogwoods.
For, with all its sturdiness, the tupelo does not bear competition, and I foresee plainly that my unlucky adventurer will inevitably find itself overshadowed by more rapid growers, and be dwarfed and deformed, if not killed outright.
Here were the asters and golden-rods already finishing their course in glory, while the tupelo was still barely getting under way in a race which, however prolonged, was all but certain to terminate in failure.
I had still an out-plantation to spare--the fine old Spanish clearing on the Tupelo Greek.
I mean that which formerly belonged to a family of half-bloods uponTupelo Creek.
The sun was hot, but his beams could not reach us; they were intercepted by the tupelo trees that grew upon the banks--their leafy branches almost meeting across the water.
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