Saturday, May 22, 2010

Parson Brownlow says . . .

. . . that Gen Fremont is the right man in the right place; and that he is the very man whom he wants to follow into East Tennessee to clean out the traitors. On the other hand our valorous contemporary who proposes to carry the war into Africa pronounces Fremont utterly unfit for any command.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

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