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 Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 01:15 pm
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izzy
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Mana: 
 I am currently reading a book by Oliver P. Temple titled, East Tennessee and the Civil War, (copyright 1899; Reprinted 1995 by The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, TN).  Oliver Temple was from Knoxville, and was smack in the middle of the political fight to keep ETN in the Union.  He writes about the early history of the area, the growth of slavery in the state, the political arguments of the time for Union or Secession, and the political campaigns and the voting results in ETN.

He writes in the entertaining flowery rhetoric of the time, and takes a rod to anyone, north, south, east, or west, that he thinks needs to be called upon the carpet to answer for their actions.  This book provides insight as to how and why ETN retained its Unionist sentiment.  I am only half way through it, but in MHO, this text is turning out to be a basic must read for anyone interested in in that area.

izzy