By the time Euro-American explorers arrived in the area in the 18th century, the Overhill Cherokee had established several villages along the Little Tennessee. These villages included Tanasi, the name source for the state of Tennessee, and Chota, the mother town of the Overhills.
A Writ of Habeas Corpus. On April 27th Lincoln startled the country by suspending the Constitutional privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus along the military lines from Washington to Philadelphia. Habeas Corpus is a personal right that goes back to English common law, predating our own Constitution.
Habeas corpus is a writ(order from judge) that compels a law enforcement authority holding a person in confinement to come forward and explain the basis of that confinement. Incarcerated individuals and their lawyers use this motion to challenge the constitutionality of the confinement.