Excerpt from Tennessee: In the War, 1861-1865
"I speak for that heroic State who was baptized in her infancy with the sprinkling of revolutionary blood on King's Mountain; who five years afterward struck again for independence under the banner of the daring young State of Franklin; who grappled single-handed and alone for fifty years, with the dusky warriors of the forest, in all their battles from the Kentucky line to the Southern Gulf; who beat back the British legions at New Orleans; who smote the false Spaniards at Pensacola; who rushed with Taylor into the breach at Monterey, and shared in the triumphal march from Vera Cruz to Mexico. Thrice has she furnished to the nation in times of peril a Chief Magistrate, each of signal abilities. To the Senate she has given the eloquence of Felix Grundy, the wisdom of George W. Campbell, the antique virtues and Roman purity of Hugh L. White, the magnificent oratory of the generous Foster, and the far-reaching statesmanship of the peerless Bell. And, although she has so recently laid away beneath the sods of a hundred battle-fields a wealth of intellect and manhood sufficient to enrich an empire, she can still point with pride to a host of living children worthy of their noble lineage."
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