The State Guard

The Nashville Union of Monday says: “Gov. Brownlow has heard that there has been a disturbance of some kind at Brownsville, the other day, and he has already sent a company of his ‘loyal militia’ there to be quartered upon the people of theat town or county. A few weeks ago a mob of loyal leaguers, headed by the sheriff of Blount county, refused to allow a minister of the gospel to preach in Maryville, and he had to leave that place in a hurry to save his life. The Governor lives only a few miles from where this occurred, but singularly enough, he has never heard of it, and so the people of Maryville have been saved the infliction of the ‘loyal militia.'”

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 25 May 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.