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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, tribunal of, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bentonville , battle of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battle of Murfreesboro , or battle of Stone River , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman , William Tecumseh 1820 -1829 (search)
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Solid South, the
The Confederate Congress having passed an act for making all residents loyal to the Confederate cause, President Davis issued a proclamation (Aug. 14, 1861) in accordance with the intent of that act. This and the confiscation act put the seal of silence upon the lips of all Union men. Few could leave, for obstacles were cast in their way. To remain was to acquiesce in the new order of things, or suffer intensely from social ostracism, if not from actual persecution.
In east Tennessee, where the majority of the people were Unionists, fearful persecutions occurred at times.
Unionists were imprisoned (see Brownlow, William Gannaway) and their property was plundered.
Very soon the jails were filled with loyalists, and so completely were the people of that region under the control of armed Confederates that, in November, 1861, Col. W. B. Wood, a Methodist clergyman from Alabama, holding a Confederate military commission, wrote to Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of Wa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)