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Lincoln's election, quickly followed by the withdrawal of South Carolina and that of other States, bewildered the people. But Brownlow stood firm and sent forth encouraging messages through his paper. Nearly all the old Whigs took the stump, and with a daring unsurpassed, denounced secession as a crime against the liberties of the people. Thus reassured, the people remained steadfast in their allegiance to the Union.
In estimating the relative value of the Union leaders of East Tennessee, it should be kept in mind that there were four crises in the political situation of this section-the first extending from November, 1860, to the February election in 1861; the second extending from February to the June election. These two were the most important. During the Presidential canvass the in- fluence of Johnson was exerted, whether so intended or not, in
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favor of the Southern movement. His advocacy of the election of Breckinridge weakened the Union cause, and correspond- ingly strengthened that of secession. On the other hand, all the Union leaders before mentioned gave their influence, and some of them their active exertions, in behalf of the cause of the Union. But after it became manifest that certain Southern States in- tended to secede from the Union, Johnson and the other leaders co-operated in a common defense of the Union.
In the third crisis, beginning with President Lincoln's procla- mation of emancipation, January 1st, 1863, the leaders divided, and there was never again co-operation between them. Early in this period Nelson, Baxter, Fleming, and Carter, and not long afterward Trigg also, turned away from the administra- tion of Lincoln, and gave their support, and all of them, except Trigg, their exertions, to the McClellan movement. This move- ment was in effect and in fact an attempt to incite a counter revolution in the North in aid of the greater one then in progress in the South. In Tennessee the contest became bitter and excit- ing. It was a new crisis in the political affairs of the State. The continued loyalty of the people of East Tennessee de- pended largely upon the settlement of the new issues that had arisen. The policy of emancipation adopted by President Lincoln was, at first especially, a shock to the minds of many who had been true to the Union. They began to hesitate and waver ; some of them denounced the President, and said they had been promised protection for their slaves, and that they did not go into war for the purpose of emancipating them. Some officers even, who had fought bravely up to that time, resigned their commissions, left the army, and denounced the adminis- tration and the war. Baxter, Nelson, Carter, and others made haste to denounce the policy of Lincoln, and to give their adhe- sion to the party opposing him. The breach in the old Union party threatened the most serious consequences to its unity. Many of the rank and file of the Union men became, as they had been in the last days of 1860, uncertain and unsettled as to their duty. But fortunately for the country, Johnson, Brownlow, Maynard, and other leaders took firm and decided ground in favor of the policy of the administration, and by their influence and their exertions saved the party from a serious division. A few men, following the lead of Nelson, Carter, and Baxter, gave their support to MeClellan for the Presidency.
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The fourth period of serious danger came in 1865, or the early part of 1866, after Johnson became President, and began gradually to withdraw from the Republican party. His steps in this direction were so cautious, and his professions of devo- tion to the Republican party so profuse, and apparently so sincere, that at first many were misled. He was slow in throw- ing off the mask in revealing his true purpose. When this at last became so manifest that all men could see it, many Union men who had been inclined to follow him, and who did follow him for a season, turned away and once more became as steadfast as in the days of 1861. A considerable number of loyal men were enticed into his support by flattery, offices, and the hope of reward. But the great body of Union men settled back into the firm support of the principles which they had so patriotically espoused in 1860 and 1861, and for which many of them had gallantly fought. It is a striking fact that not only Mr. John- son left his friends in 1866, but a majority of the trusted leaders who took part in the contest of 1861-Nelson, Netherland, Trigg, Baxter, Fleming, Carter, and many others, did the same. All the power and patronage of the President were exhausted in trying to secure the following of the patriotic people of East Tennessee, but nothing could blind them or seduce them from their Union faith. During this period the bravest and most con- spicuous leader of the Union forces was Mr. Brownlow. When it became necessary again to defend the principles of 1861, he made no compromise with any human being. He quarreled with his old antagonist, Andrew Johnson, and unsparingly denounced him as he had done in 1840 and 1844. For his bravery from 1865 to 1867, during which time the responsibility of leadership rested upon him, the nation can never overhonor him. If he had given way in 1865, and followed the example of the leaders above named, the Union or Republican party of East Tennessee would have been hopelessly divided and destroyed. Mr. May- nard, too, and some of the old leaders of 1861, as well as many new leaders who had sprung up out of the war, deserve honor- able mention for their stand for the integrity of the Union party.
It will be observed that Mr. Johnson, while deserving recogni- tion for his efforts in behalf of the Union from December, 1860, to 1865, exerted at two periods all his influence in opposition to it. So also is it true of the other leaders above mentioned, that while they were faithful in 1861, they ceased to be so in
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1864. The only prominent leaders of 1861 who remained faith- ful at all periods were Brownlow, Maynard, Arnold, Milligan and myself. There was never any wavering in the patriotic work of these men. In estimating the comparative permanent influence of the different leaders upon the Union cause in East Tennessee, and especially upon the Whigs, the first place is un- questionably due to Mr. Brownlow.
In giving Mr. Brownlow the first place among the Whig leaders in East Tennessee, I do so with a full knowledge of the facts, for I was familiar with all that occurred. Most of these leaders I had known almost from my boyhood. The others I knew thoroughly. I was an active participant in the campaign of 1860. In that which followed the election of Mr. Lincoln, no man was more active than I from its opening to its close. I was therefore in a position to know what each prominent leader did, as well as the value of the services he rendered. The opinion here expressed is based upon actual knowledge of all that took place, from the first public meeting in December, 1860, to the close of the canvass in June, 1861. I also knew the power of all these leaders as speakers, knew their relative influence with the people, and knew the people and the motives which moved and swayed them.
It must be kept in mind that Mr. Brownlow edited the organ of the party ; that his paper went into nearly every neighbor- hood in East Tennessee; that it was read by hundreds, if not by thousands, who were not subscribers. With most of these readers the paper was not only an organ, but an oracle, and they followed its teachings with unquestioned faith. Brown- low's popularity was totally unlike that of the other prominent men. Johnson was strong with his party because of his bitter- ness, his boldness, and his intellectual strength, but his real friends were not numerous. Nelson was strong by reason of his noble personality-his courage, his ability, and his in- tegrity. But he was a student and never courted applause, nor was he followed by the huzzas of the populace. Maynard was admired for his talents, and like Nelson, for his purity of char- acter. But at that time his personal following was not so great as it became afterward. On the other hand, men were attached to Brownlow by a blind personal devotion, and they followed him with an enthusiastic love, such as the clansmen of Scotland formerly bestowed on their Highland Chiefs. He was the hero
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of the common people of East Tennessee in 1861, and with them his personal influence far exceeded that of any other man.
Looking back to the canvass of 1861, after the lapse of forty years, it can be seen that the minds of men on both sides were carried away by passion, and were little inclined to listen to reason. They could only see one side, and that in the strongest possible light. Reason was overthrown. I have al- ready pointed out in another work the utter madness of the whole secession scheme-the amazing infatuation and folly of its conception and attempted execution. But strange to say, the Union leaders of East Tennessee, and perhaps elsewhere also, seem to have been carried away with a kind of passion, not so great as that of the secessionists, yet still such as partially blinded them to certain facts forming a large element in the con- sideration of the questions of the hour. They denounced seces- sion as a crime without a single circumstance to justify it. They overlooked the importance of the repeated violations of the Con- stitution by Personal Liberty Bills, and the defiance of the Fugi- tive Slave Law in certain Northern States. In fair discussion of the issue of secession, the consideration of these questions can scarcely be overlooked. Notwithstanding these circum- stances a number of reasons can be given why it was most un- wise to attempt to dissolve the Union.
Mr. Stephens, in his noted speech at Milledgeville, had dis- cussed this very point. He insisted that the Southern States should not withdraw from the Union, without first making a solemn demand, through a regular Embassy, for the redress of the wrong and the removal of the grievance. He pointed out that this was the course pursued in such cases by inde- pendent powers, and that it ought to be adopted in the case of a sister, though sovereign, State, in reference to the violation of the compact of the Union. In substance, this was the answer that Mr. Stephens had given to the demand for immedi- ate secession in Georgia, and it was unanswerable. It was be- lieved at the time that the Northern States could be induced to repeal their laws unfriendly to the institution of slavery. Be- fore the firing on Sumter, Congress had proposed and passed an amendment to the Constitution, which needed only a ratifi- cation by a Constitutional majority to render slavery perpetual in the States where it then existed, except by the consent of the people interested in the question. It is therefore insisted that
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the action of the seceding States was hasty and unwise, in at- tempting to withdraw from the Union until the last resource of diplomacy had been exhausted. It is evident that diplomacy would have been futile in December. But in February and March, when seven States had seceded and four or five others were likely to do so, a condition had arisen that caused thought- ful people all over the North, as well as in the non-seceding States in the South, solemnly to pause. There was everywhere a demand for a settlement, a compromise, an adjustment by Con- stitutional provisions and guaranties that would forever settle all vexed questions, and leave the institution of slavery so securely entrenched in the Constitution as to remove all apprehension in reference to its future safety. The great body of the Northern people, in their fright at the appalling prospect of civil war, stood with arms open imploring the people of the seceding States to come back, assuring them of the most ample protection for their slaves. Mr. Lincoln, in his immortal Inaugural Address, in affectionate and pathetic words, entreated the South to stay its hands, declaring, "We are not enemies, but friends." Unless the indications were most delusive, the South could have obtained at that time all the reasonable compensations and guaranties needed. But at this critical hour, when abolition was virtually hushed by the mighty voice of patriotism, evoked by the coun- try's extreme peril, a fatal shot was fired at Sumter, which was heard sounding ominously round the world. As the noise of that shot died away upon the air and upon the sea, all hope of peace died with it.
Secession proved to be from every point of view a sad mistake. If the secession States had waited until they had exhausted every remedy; if the Northern States, after solemn remonstrances had failed to repeal their obnoxious laws ; if they had still mani- fested an unmistakable determination to render nugatory the Fugitive Slave Law, the seccding States would have stood before the world in their fight as the defenders of the Constitution. There would have been much force in the claim that they were fighting to preserve that sacred instrument. Yet in the light of the past, it was an unwise issue to invoke the arbitrament of war. Secession proved to be no remedy for the existing evil, as the Union leaders earnestly insisted it was not. Slavery, the issue of contention, perished in the conflict.
In civil war, such as that of 1861-65, it is most unfor-
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tunate for one part of a State to be arrayed against another part, for a minority to be in opposition to a majority. The evil growing out of the division in East Tennessee during the late Civil War can never be estimated. These evils have fallen mainly on the unflinching Union men, and they are likely to continue for generations to come. They were as honest as men could be. What possible motive could they have had for being dishonest in their course? All the prominent leaders, except- ing one, were, as their ancestors had been, Southern born. In interest and sympathy, in association and education, they were Southern. All but two were slave owners and friends of the institution of slavery. They had no sympathy with abo- lition or abolitionists. They believed that secession, whether suc- cessful or unsuccessful, would prove a dire calamity to the South. And they were right. The supreme object of the fight- slavery-disappeared while the contest still went on, accom- panied by untold evils. These Union leaders today stand vin- dicated by the result, and by the calm, better judgment of their enemies. The condemnation at the present time of the secession movement by a majority of those engaged in it, ought to be sufficient vindication of those who opposed it.
In giving in the list that follows, the names of the prominent Union leaders in the several counties of East Tennessee no doubt I have omitted many persons worthy of being mentioned. But it must be kept in mind as an act of justice to myself, that, with the exception of Knox and Sevier counties, and Blount to a limited extent, I have had to rely upon citizens of the several counties to furnish me lists of names. So, with the exceptions named, I am not censurable for the omission of names which ought to appear and are worthy of honorable mention. It will be observed that no names are given for Cocke County. The reason is that I have been unable to get anyone to furnish me a list of names, although I have written several letters to prominent men requesting such lists. For the same reason I am able to furnish only a partial list in several counties. It is a source of deep regret that owing to this fact and to my limited space, I am unable to give in detail, or even mention, the services of many Union men deserving recog- nition. To do so, would swell my book beyond a reasonable size.
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JOHNSON COUNTY .- Hon. Roderick R. Butler, A. D. Smith, Rev. Lewis Venable, John H. Vaught, Richard L. Wilson, M. M. Wagner, J. W. M. Grayson, G. H. Shoun, John Murphy, I. E. Northington.
SULLIVAN COUNTY .- Dr. M. W. A. Willoughly, E. A. Mill- ard, Campbell E. Warner, Joshua Hamilton, Hugh Fain, Thomas Fain, John H. Fain, Samuel Pearce, Joel N. Barker, Andrew Gibson, Thomas Buchanan, William Dickson, Andrew Leslie, John Buller, Daniel B. Wegler, William Pearrey, Wil- liam Mullinix, Rev. Joseph Spurgeon, Eli Anderson, Rev. W. G. Barker, James A. Neal, Dr. Geo. W. Patton, John W. Falls, Samuel Snapp, Samuel Cloud, Dr. R. L. Stanford, James Lynn, G. A. Netherland.
CARTER COUNTY .- Rev. Wm. B. Carter, Nathaniel G. Tay- lor, Abram Tipton, C. P. Toncry, Colonel J. P. T. Carter, Colonel Daniel L. Stover, Hon. Elijah Simmerly, Jackson Fellers, Colonel John K. Miller, Dan. Ellis, Albert J. Tipton, Samuel W. Williams, Dr. J. M. Cannon, Lafayette Cannon, Dr. A. Jobe, Rev. J. H. Hyder, Samuel A. Cunningham, P. M. Williams, Valentine Bowers, S. P. Angel, S. W. Scott.
WASHINGTON COUNTY .- Judge T. A. R. Nelson, Judge Seth J. W. Lucky, Judge A. J. Brown, Judge S. T. Logan, Judge J. W. Deaderick, Dr. Samuel Cunningham, Dr. Wm. R. Sevier, John A. Wilds, William Dawes, David T. Wilds, S. T. Shipley, Samuel Griffith, Dr. J. D. Gibson, George McPherson, John D. Cox, Henry Hoss, George W. Telford, Dr. W. M. Bovell, E. L. Mathes, Alexander Mathes, Samuel M. Mitchell, W. M. Mitchell, "Addy" Broyles, G. W. Nelson, John T. Baskett, Colonel S. K. N. Patton, M. S. Mahoney, John F. Grisham, Nathan Shipley, John B. Hunt, Hiram Hale, Peter Reeves, Henry Johnson, Samuel H. Miller, Isaac Hartsell, Calvin Hoss, Bird Brown, Edward H. West, M. P. Boring, R. M. Young, William M. McKee, Dr. William Smith, James B. Strain, Payne Squibb, Dr. Richard Humphreys, Ebenezer Barkly, China Marsh.
GREENE COUNTY .- Hon. Andrew Johnson, Thomas D. Arnold, Judge Samuel Milligan, Judge David T. Patterson, R. A. Crawford, Jas. P. McDowel, James Britton, George Jones, Henry B. Baker, M. L. Patterson, Anthony Rankin, Jacob Bible, Chris Bible, Samuel Steel, Leland Davis, Charles Brown, William Brown, William Shields, Samuel Henry, Richard
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Susong, Marshal Hartman, Daniel Smith, Samuel Stevens, Abe Johnson, Matt G. Fellers, Bayless Jones, James Jones, Jona- than Easterly, A. W. Walker, William Ruble, John Bible, Billy Bible, George Kinney, Jacob Meyers, Daniel Kelley, Thomas Davis, Barney Cooter, Humphrey Wells, Thomas Johnson, Anthony Moore, James W. Galbraith, David Dobson, Abner Beals, Solomon Good, John Beals, William Ellis, A. M. Piper, William McAmis, T. K. Cox, John McGaughey, William S. McGaughey, Calvin Dobson, Azar Koontz, Neil Hardin, Charles Gass, Jacob Carter, Samuel Keller, William Reed, R. C. Carter, Mordica Harmon, Absalom Gray, Jerry McMillan, Enoch Moore, James Maloney, Abraham Carter, Calvin Smith, Robert Kite, Shady Babb, James G. Reeves, Dr. G. A. Nelson, James F. Nelson, James Lane (pilot and leader of refugees).
HAWKINS COUNTY .- Hon. John Netherland, W. C. Kyle, A. P. Kyle, Hon. Chas. J. Mckinney, Hon. William Simpson, A. P. Caldwell, James White, S. D. Brooks, John Blevins, Joseph R. Armstrong, W. W. Willis, Crawford W. Hall, Elias Beal, Radham Chestnutt, H. G. Flagg, Robert Netherland, George W. Huntsman, Judge E. E. Gillenwaters, William Green, Joseph Eckle, James Walker, Hugh Cain, David Kirkpatrick, W. R. Pearson, Harry Vance, William Keener, Richard Morisett.
HANCOCK COUNTY .- Major W. B. Davis, L. W. Jarvis, Henry Tyler.
CLAIBORNE COUNTY .- Vincent Meyers, James J. Bunch, John M. Vanbebber, Wiley Huffaker, E. E. Jones, J. J. Sewell, Houston Sewell, Walter R. Evans, Hugh Farmer, H. H. Kincaid.
GRAINGER COUNTY .- Hon. D. W. C. Senter, Edward L. Tate, Charles C. Smith, James James, C. M. Dyer, George H. Greene, John Brooks, Joel Dyer, Michael McGuire, Harmon G. Lea.
JEFFERSON COUNTY. - Hon. Montgomery Thornburgh, Judge James P. Swann, William Gailbraith, George Hoskins, Samuel P. Johnson, William Harris, George M. Elliott, Samuel J. Newman, M. Looney Peck, Chris C. Carey, Dr. Archibald Blackburn, James Monroe Meek, J. M. Meek, Adam K. Meek, Colonel D. G. Thornburgh, Major Russ Thornburgh.
SEVIER COUNTY. - Dr. R. H. Hodsden, Samuel Pickens, Edmond Hodges, Andrew Lawson, W. C. Pickens, Charles
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Inman, Dr. W. H. Trotter, John Trotter, Henry C. Hodges, Wilson Duggan, James M. Murphy, J. C. Murphy, Dr. J. M. Hammer, Wm. Catlett, Dr. James H. Ellis, Daniel Keener, Har- vey Keener, William E. Hodges, Rev. James Cummings.
BLOUNT COUNTY .- Rev. Wm. T. Dowell, Rev. John S. Craig, Rev. Thomas J. Lamar, Hon. John F. Henry, John W. H. Tipton, Andrew Kirckpatrick, William J. Hackney, Iredell D. Wright, Captain James Henry, Harold Foster, William Mc- Teer, Montgomery McTeer, Stephen Matthews, Iredel Wright, Spencer Henry, W. L. Dearing, Solomon Farmer, David God- dard, Wm. Goddard, Andrew McBath, Robert Eagleton, W. H. Cunningham, James H. Rowan.
KNOX COUNTY. - William G. Brownlow, John Baxter, Horace Maynard, O. P. Temple, C. F. Trigg, Perez Dickinson, Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Humes, John Williams, John M. Fleming, James H. Cowan, Robert H. Armstrong, Dr. Joseph C. Strong, A. G. Jackson, Judge Samuel R. Rodgers, John J. Craig, E. J. Sanford, James S. Boyd, Samuel Morrow, David Richardson, Thomas Rodgers, Dr. William A. Rodgers, Caleb Baker, David Burnett, Samuel A. Rodgers, Samuel McCammon (Red), Dr. James Rodgers, Jacob Doyle, W. C. Doyle, Samuel Bowman, Peter Derieux, A. C. Callan, Dr. Robert Sneed, W. H. Carter, Andrew Knott, Levi McCloud, Absalom Bur- nett, James H. Morris, John Tunnell, John Roberts, Thomas Boyd, William Rodgers, James Martin Rodgers, James Ster- ling, Alexander Reeder, W. H. Swan, James C. Luttell, M. L. Hall, Joseph Parsons, Rufus M. Bennett, Joseph W. Fowler, W. C. Carnes, T. W. Carnes, J. F. Bunker, Calvin Mynatt, Jefferson Harris, Murphy.
ANDERSON COUNTY .- James Ross, John Whitson, John C. Chiles, Wm. Cross, Alfred Cross, Samuel C. Young, Judge D. K. Young, L. C. Houk, D. A. Carpenter, John Leinart, R. H. Coward, W. W. Wallace, James A. Doughty.
UNION COUNTY. - J. W. Baker, John Fuller Huddleston, Francis Huddleston, Christian Ousley, M. V. Nash, Jesse G. Palmer, Emanuel Miller, William Rogers, Kelly Rogers, Isaac C. Dyer, Rice Snodderly, L. R. Carden, William Hawn, R. J. Carr, John C. Baker, John Sharp, Jacob Sharp, Presney Buckner, Isaac Bolinger, Robert Russell, Henry Stiner, Eli Stiner, John E. Sharp, Rev. William Hinkle, B. F. Skaggs, Rev. William Williams, Dr. J. W. Thornburg, J. M. Sawyers,
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Isaac Bayless, Dr. S. H. Smith, L. Huddleston, F. P. Hansard, A. McPheters.
CAMPBELL COUNTY .- Hon. F. H. Bratcher, R. D. Wheeler, William Carey, Dr. David Hart, Joshua A. Cooper, Jonathan Lindsay, Reuben Rogers, Dr. John Jones, Alfred Dossett, George McFarland, Elias Bowman, Lew McNew, Miss Sue Carey, Dr. J. H. Agee, George Bowling, J. L. Keeney, Wm. Robbins, Joseph Hatmaker.
SCOTT COUNTY. - Captain John W. Smith, Riley Cecil, James Sanhusky, Joel Parker, Major James S. Duncan, Cap- tain John Newport, Captain Wm. Robbins, "Jack" Brown, James L. Chitwood, Captain Wayne W. Cotton, Captain J. J. Duncan, Captain Dennis Trammels, Bailey Buttram, John Phillips, William Cecil.
MORGAN COUNTY. - Tolliver Staples, Ephraim Langley, James A. Duncan, James M. Melton, John H. Byrd, M. Stephens, John Hall, James Peters, Julian Scott, Samuel C. Hunnycutt.
ROANE COUNTY .- Robert K. Bird (Colonel of 1st Tenn- essee Regiment), Dr. John W. Wester, Dr. James W. Lee, Samuel L. Childress, Rev. John Y. Smith, Rev. W. P. Lowery, Absalom Adkinson, Samuel Owings, W. J. Owings, Thomas J. Mason, Dr. R. P. Eaton, Mitchell Rose, F. "Cabe" Young, R. W. Boyd, J. T. Shelley, W. M. Alexander, J. W. Bowman, D. F. Harrison, W. S. Patton.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY .- A. C. Yates, F. Kindred.
MONROE COUNTY .- Wm. Heiskell, Daniel Heiskell, Robert Snead, J. F. Owen, D. H. Cleveland, Charles Owen, S. P. Hale, E. A. Taylor, Gilburn Snead, W. H. Dawson, Wm. M. Smith, J. R. Robinson, Samuel M. Johnson.
POLK COUNTY .- W. M. Biggs, J. M. McCleary, Wm. J. Copeland.
MCMINN COUNTY .- John McGaughey, Thos. B. McElwee, Charles Cate, Dr. M. R. May, N. J. Peters, A. Hutsell, Judge G. W. Bridges, William G. Horton, Dr. E. Daniel, William Reynolds, Geo. Hutsell, Jacob Gilhut, James Gettys, William M. Sehorn, John H. Slover, David Cleage, Richard M. Fisher, William Burnes, Horace Bryent, Hill Buttram, James Howe, Robert Cochran, E. A. Atlee, Joseph Matthews, Jacob Matthews, M. L. Phillips, Rev. John Wilkins, J. H. Hornsby, Arch Blizzard, Dr. William W. Alexander, Doc Crow, Charles
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Bogart, Oliver Dodson, William Dodson, Nathan Kelly, H. Rider, Willian Bunke, J. H. Magill, the Parkinsons, the Fosters.
BRADLEY COUNTY .- Levi Trewhitt, Dr. William Hunt, Dr. John G. Brown, Allen Master, C. D. Champion, Thos. L. Cate, Stephen Beard, R. M. Edwards, Jesse H. Gaut, John McPher- son, A. C. Clingan, P. L. Matthews, D. D. Taylor, John F. Kinchelow, Sidney Wise, J. S. Bradford, A. J. Cate, R. D. Julien, William Pearsley, John Hambright, Ben Hambright, G. R. Hambright, Samuel Parks, James Parks, William Pal- mer, Montgomery Heebler, John Heebler, James F. Cleveland, Rev. George Julien, Rev. John Julien, Rev. Samuel Julien, Baldwin Cate, Welcome Beard, E. Ramsey, John Blackburn.
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