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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Washington (United States) or search for Washington (United States) in all documents.
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Thomas A. R. Nelson.
The Nashville (Tenn.) Union, of the 7th inst., has the following editorial in reference to the arrest of this individual:
Information often au hectic character reached this city yesterday, that Thomas A R Nelson, of Washington county, was arrested in Lee county, Virginia, on the afternoon of the 4th inst. He was taken to Cumberland Gap and thence sent to Abingdon, Va., under an escort of sixty men. Nelson was supposed to be making his way to Washington City, for the purpose of claiming a seat in the Federal Congress, which has waged and is now prosecuting a war of plunder and subjugation against the Confederate States.
He has traversed the mountains and valleys of East Tennessee, preaching rebellion and war against the State of Tennessee, and inflaming the minds of the patriotic people of that section against their brethren and the South enjoying the utmost degree of freedom in uttering his both and treasonable sentiments.
He has counselled his fellow
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Woman's devotion to our cause. (search)