Showing posts with label Gallatin TN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gallatin TN. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Telegraphic Communication Opened


LOUISVILLE, March 14.  The telegraph line is now open for business between here and Nashville, Clarksville and Gallatin, Tennessee.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 4

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Important From Tennessee

Returning Reason and Loyalty.

WASHINGTON, March 20.

The citizens of Gallatin, Tenn., which has been decidedly disloyal, met in a town meeting recently and were addressed by Baillie Poyton, voted a petition for a Post Office there, and expressed their willingness to return to their allegiance.  A post office is to be established there in a few days.

John Lellyett has been appointed Postmaster at Nashville.  He wrote some of the best articles against secession during the agitation of that subject in Tennessee.

A Special agent of the Post Office Department, acting on the Tennessee and Kentucky borders, reports as follows:

“It is gratifying wherever I have been to find that there is a strong desire for re-establishing the mails, and a willingness among the people to return to their allegiance.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 1