. East Tennessee and the civil war . xville and vicinity erected a new flag-pole onGay street, on the site of the one which had been cut downby the Confederates thirty months before. From its loftytop they hung the stars and stripes amid the sound of mar-tial music and the shouts of thousands of joyous specta-tors. The national flag had come to have a meaning neverdreamed of until it was displaced by one representing aforeign power. Then it became to the imprisoned Unionmen of East Tennessee, confined and hedged in by a wallof fire and lines of bayonets, as dear to them as their ownchildren. D
. East Tennessee and the civil war . xville and vicinity erected a new flag-pole onGay street, on the site of the one which had been cut downby the Confederates thirty months before. From its loftytop they hung the stars and stripes amid the sound of mar-tial music and the shouts of thousands of joyous specta-tors. The national flag had come to have a meaning neverdreamed of until it was displaced by one representing aforeign power. Then it became to the imprisoned Unionmen of East Tennessee, confined and hedged in by a wallof fire and lines of bayonets, as dear to them as their ownchildren. Dr. Swan M. Burnett, a native of East Tennes-see, but now of Washington, D. C.,in an address deliveredin that city in 1894, entitled The Over-Mountain Men,and published in the American Historical Register, touch-ingly refers to this sentiment among these people, andespecially with the wives of the exiles in Kentucky, asfollows: It was no wonder, then, that some of these lonelywomen made for themselves flags emblematic of their faith,. JAMES KOBERTSON. Father mid Defender of Middle Tennessee. The Return. 481 which they tooh secretly from their hiding places in hours ofdarkness and caressed, often with tears, as a devotee would therelic of a patron saint. I have said that a part of the exiles came home in tri-umph with the army of General Burnside. Some came andstayed a few days and were then hurried to other fields ofservice. Some spent the winter of 1863-4 here, but theywere always on the front, fighting or skirmishing withLongstreet and his veterans. In the spring some of themcommenced a new career of wandering. They marchedSouthward with Schofield to join Sherman in his hun-dred days fight. In every engagement in which theytook part they did their duty nobly. When Atlanta wastaken, they followed Thomas back toward were present with Schofield in the desperate battle ofFranklin. A few weeks later, they participated in thedangers as well as the glories of the magni
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