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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Tennessee, (search)
The governor was empowered to raise 50,000 volunteers for the defence of the State, and, if necessary, to call out the whole available military strength of the commonweath, to be under the absolute immediate control of the governor. He was also authorized to issue bonds of the State for $5,000,000, to bear an annual interest of 8 per cent. Pursuant to the act of the legislature authorizing the governor to take measures to annex that State to the Confederacy, the governor appointed Gustavus A. Henry, Archibald O. W. Totten, and Washington Barrow, commissioners for the purpose. They negotiated a treaty with the agent of the Confederate States, Henry W. Hilliard, and on the 7th a copy of the treaty was submitted to the legislature. By the treaty the authorities of Tennessee were to turn over to the Confederate States all the public property, naval stores, and munitions of war of which she might then be in possession, acquired from the United States, on the same terms and in the s