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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Unionists converted to Secession. (search)
Unionists converted to Secession.
--The outrageous conduct of the Federal army in Tennessee has converted, it is said, many of the Unionists in that section into Secessionists.
The Marietta Confederate speaks thus on the subject:
A friend who has conversed recently with several late refugees from East Tennessee, learns from them that Federal outrages on Unionists and Disunionists, indiscriminately, have had a happy effect on the political sentiments of the former and numbers have been purged of their Unionism and hopefully converted to the Southern cause.
A Presbyterian elder at Cleveland, noted for his disloyalty to the South, anticipating protection to his person and property from his Yankee friends, called their advent with joy, but it was of short duration.
In spite of his protestations of loyalty, and remonstrances against such treatment to a Union man, the Yankee robbers stripped his dwelling, barns, &c., of nearly everything valuable.--He was well to do in th