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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, And Rebel Ventilator
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
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Robert M. Barton, a leading rebel known for persecuting Union men, arrives in Dandridge, East Tennessee, under a flag of truce to negotiate his return, but faces threats from locals he previously harmed.
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This little man, the embodiment of all that is insincere, two-faced, rebellious and mean, is now at Dandridge with a flag of truce, seeking to negotiate himself back into East Tennessee. No man has been more bitter and more unrelenting in his war upon Union men. He is the man who wrote to the President of the Tennessee and Virginia railroad to exclude all Union men from the privileges of the road, and to hoist the black flag on every train.
Mr. Barton may come with his flags of truce, and he may negotiate, professing what he pleases, but he can't live in East Tennessee. There are Union men in every county who will make it their business to attend to his case. He is of that class of leading rebels who drove them from their homes, and caused them to be cast into prison. They owe it to themselves, to their injured families, and to the Union cause, to put him out of the way.
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Dandridge, East Tennessee
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union men in every county vow to 'put him out of the way' due to his past actions
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Robert M. Barton, described as insincere and bitter against Union men, is at Dandridge with a flag of truce seeking to negotiate his return to East Tennessee. He previously wrote to exclude Union men from the Tennessee and Virginia railroad and to hoist the black flag on trains. Despite his professions, local Union men, driven from homes and imprisoned by such rebels, intend to prevent him from living there.