Whitelaw Reid: “Give East Tennessee her long-sought railroad connection with Cincinnati and the North, and the emigration thither from…”

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.