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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
Swearing in East Tennessee. --Judge Humphreys, of the Confederate District for East Tennessee, has been holding court at Knoxville. The Register notices the proceedings of a late day: By far the larger portion of the Knoxville bar came forward and took the oath to support the Constitution and Government of the Confederate States of America, as well as the usual oath of faithfulness administered in our courts to all practicing attorneys. Among the gentlemen thus sworn was Mr. John Baxter, who has been considered by the late Union party of East Tennessee as a prominent leader among them, and who has been regarded by Southern men as one of the most violent and ultra of the opponents of Southern Rights in the State. During the day John Brownlow and W. A. G. Reed, who were in the custody of the military, were surrendered to the Marshal, when the former, the District Attorney having no charge of a criminal nature against him, was fully discharged; the latter was, as we und