. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... er the English nor the French govern^ments would receive the commissioners offic-ially. It was understood that the UnitedStates would regard the interference of eitherin the American quarrel as a cause of war, andneither power cared to join in the struggle. Tennessee seceded from the Union, as wehave related, in the spring of 1861. Th» m6 tHE CIVIL WAH. western and central portions of the Statewere unanimously in favor of joining theSouthern States and gave
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... er the English nor the French govern^ments would receive the commissioners offic-ially. It was understood that the UnitedStates would regard the interference of eitherin the American quarrel as a cause of war, andneither power cared to join in the struggle. Tennessee seceded from the Union, as wehave related, in the spring of 1861. Th» m6 tHE CIVIL WAH. western and central portions of the Statewere unanimously in favor of joining theSouthern States and gave a hearty supportto the Confederacy during the war, but EastTennessee, inhabited by a race of hardynountaineers, was devoted to the Union, andvas unwilling to leave it. In the autumn of1861, the East Tennesseans took up armsagainst the Confederate Government, andbegan to destroy the railway bridges in thatpart of the State. This movement was full of danger to theConfederacy, as the principal line of commu-nication between Virginia and the Mississippipassed through East Tennessee. A consid-erable force of Confederate troops was sent. JAMES M. MASON. into East Tennessee to hold the people insubjection and protect the railroads, butthroughout the war, the hostility of the peo-ple of this region was a constant source ofdanger and weakness to the Confederates. When the year 1862 opened, the war hadassumed colossal proportions. The militaryoperations extended almost across the conti-nent, and engaged a number of powerfularmies, and a formidable navy. The call ofPresident Lincoln for troops had been cheer-fully responded to, and the opening of theyear found the United States provided with aforce of over half a million of men, splendidlyarmed and equipped, and supplied with every-thing necessary for the successful prosecution of the war. The North had profited by itsfirst reverses, and was resolved that its nexteffort, which was to be made at the openingof the season for active operati
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