2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
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War-date Union Document Signed by Jno. B Perry, Capt. & Provost Marshal, 1pp. oblong octavo, Provost Marshal's Office, Gallatin, Tennessee, August 1863, and reads "Q L. Ellis of Wilson county State of Tennessee has taken the oath of allegiance to the U.S. Government, and filed a bond in the sum of five hundred dollars..." Very good condition. During the secession crisis just before the American Civil War, the citizens of Gallatin hoped to remain neutral; they were opposed to secession from the Union. Once the fighting began, however, they gave almost unanimous support to the Confederacy and volunteered to serve in defense of their state. The Union Army captured Gallatin in February 1862, following Ulysses S. Grant's capture of Fort Donelson. Gallatin was strategic both because of the railroad that connected the town to other cities and its location on the Cumberland River, both of which the Union Army sought to control. In July 1862, General John Hunt Morgan recaptured Gallatin and held it until the Confederate forces fell back to Chattanooga in October. In November 1862, Union General Eleazar A. Paine retook the town, and Union troops occupied it throughout the remainder of the war.
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