Tennessees War 1861 1865 PDF Download

Excerpt from Tennessee: In the War, 1861-1865 IN 1856 Isham G. Harris was elected Governor of Ten hessee, and reelected in 1859. In this latter year John Brown made his raid into Virginia, was captured at Har per's Ferry, tried and convicted of murder, and executed. The presidential election of 1860 created great excite ment and much bitter feeling. Abraham Lincoln was elected. On the 20th of December, 1860, South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession, and soon afterwards Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had taken the same action. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.