What an inspiring little piece of history this is!

Thanks for digging up this nugget of American courage and bringing it to our attention.

I live in a North Carolina mountain town, Boone, only a few miles from the Tennessee line.

Them mountaineers over there are surely a unique batch of American nobility. There's nobody like a Tennessee Volunteer, especially the mountain iteration.

I mean . . . Dolly Parton is from East Tennesse, a territory that once aspired to an identity of its own, the "State of Franklin."

There's nobody like Dolly; there's nobody like them Scott County men and women, and there's no place on earth like East Tennessee, except where I live, the North Carolin mountain counties.

And let the record show that we here in Western North Carolina were not too much on a-favorin' them slave-owners down south who made such a big ruckus and tragic war when they could have just taken Mr. Lincoln's advice to begin with.

Such a pre-war concession would have saved a lot of lives, blood, sweat, and tears.

Thanks, Ryan, for sharing your research on Medium.