Friday, March 23, 2012

Andy Johnson, the Tennessee senator . . .

. . . will probably proceed to Nashville, as soon as Gen. Buell’s army takes possession of that city, and assist in organizing a provisional government for Tennessee.  The people are panting for freedom and a resumption of their connection with the national Union.  They will probably send a full delegation of [loyalty] men to Congress by the last of March.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 1, 1862, p. 2

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