The loyal mountaineers of Tennessee — David Hume — John Shaqi
The loyal mountaineers of Tennessee
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[Illustration: ASSAULT ON FORT SANDERS.
LLOYD BRANSON, DEL.]
THE
LOYAL MOUNTAINEERS
OF
TENNESSEE
BY
THOMAS WILLIAM HUMES, S. T. D.
“The noblest word in the catalogue of social virtues
is Loyalty”--JOHN RUSKIN.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
OGDEN BROTHERS & COMPANY
1888.
Copyright, 1888,
BY THOMAS WILLIAM HUMES.
_Ogden Bros. & Co.
Printers and Stationers,
Knoxville, Tenn._
DEDICATED
IN
LOVE AND GRATITUDE
TO
The Memory
OF
LLOYD P. SMITH AND EDWARD EVERETT,
FRIENDS AND HELPERS
OF A
SUFFERING PEOPLE.
PREFACE.
The attitude which a large majority of the people of East Tennessee
deliberately assumed and persistently maintained in the Civil War
of 1861-’65, was remarkable. It had no precise parallel within the
limits of the ten seceded States, and there was no distinctive and
numerous population in any one of the loyal States whose surroundings
were so greatly unfavorable to a like attitude of devotion to the
Union.