The photocopy shown below is an original "broadside" issued to the people of East Tennessee, by, Confederate Brigadier General Felix K. Zollicoffer, on August 7, 1861. The notice warned that "Treason to the State cannot, will not be tolerated". This was a thinly veiled threat of the consequences to be expected in retaliation for such acts as bridge-burning. The " Pottertown"
bridge-burners placed their confidence in the promises of " protection" made to them at high levels of the United States Government. When that protection never materialized....the men were doomed!!
( This rare and previously unrecorded broadside is shown here through the courtesy of Mr. George E. Webb, Jr., of TENNESSEE BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS ).
These pages regarding the Pottertown Bridge-Burners are
reprinted with permission from Donahue Bible from his booklet
"THEIR EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY. . .
EAST TENNESSEE UNIONISTS IN THE CIVIL WAR . . 1861-1865"
This page can be freely linked to but not
copied in any way without
express permission from Donahue Bible.
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