Monday, July 15, 2019

Governor Isham G. Harris to Simon Cameron, April 17, 1861

NASHVILLE, TENN., April 17, 1861.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War:

SIR: Your dispatch of 15th instant, informing me that Tennessee is called upon for two regiments of militia for immediate service, is received. Tennessee will not furnish a single man for purpose of coercion, but 50,000, if necessary, for the defense of our rights and those of our Southern brethren.

ISHAM G. HARRIS,            
Governor of Tennessee.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume 1 (Serial No. 122), p. 81

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