. . . was badly scared by the turn of events at Fort Donelson. They hustled out of Nashville, carpet-bag in hand, within two hours after the news of the surrender was announced, and as late as the 24th, a quorum could not be got together at Memphis, the place to which they had adjourned. That won’t make any difference, however. Claib Jackson kept his rump legislature going with hardly enough members in it to fill the necessary offices, and if Gov. Harris can’t run the machine without a quorum he is less fertile in his resources than the now vagrant Claib.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 1
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