THE ATHENS POST

OCTOBER 3, 1862

A CALL FOR A PUBLIC MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF MCMINN COUNTY

            Inasmuch as heretofore there has been a difference of opinion among the citizens of McMinn County upon the subject of the present war waged by the United States Government against the people of the Government of the Confederate States; super induced generally, if not universally, by a difference of opinion as to the causes and objects of the war, but the undersigned feeling that now opinion and determination among us and that is that the whole people of the Confederate States should revisit at all hazards and to the last extremity the attempt now manifested by the United States Government to subjugate the people of the Confederate States; and further believing that it is the duty of all men, due as well to themselves as to each other and to the Government, to make a public manifestation of their feelings, so that private and public confidence may be restored and established in regard to the loyalty of all men; therefore, it is requested that the citizens of McMinn county meet at the Courthouse in Athens, on the first Monday of October, 1862, to consider of the present condition of the country, and to give a public expression of their feelings and intentions in regard to the same.

T. Nixon Van Dyke                               S.M. Roberts

William H. Ballew                                  J.T. Lane

Alexander Cleage                                  S. McKinzey

M.F. Rice                                             W.H. Staples

Georga A. Caldwell                              J.R. Neal

Sam. P. Ivins                                        C.L. Rice

Jno. L. Bridges                                     R.M. Staples

Erastus Rowley                                     I.G. Barksdale

John Hoyl                                             Tennison Lambert

Daniel Horton                                       Thomas Everton

A. McKeldin                                        W.C. Vaughan

Wm. George                                        W. D. Browder

Wies. Mayfield                                     Cornelius Brown

C. Staples                                            Hugh Crawford

Allen Boone                                         H. Woolf

Thos. A. Cleage                                   A.M. Brett

J.F. Benton                                           J.C. Carlock

J.W. Mann                                           J.T. Davis

Wesley Gaston                                     R. Cantrell

A. Caldwell                                          C.B. Newman

N.M. Crockett                                     Wm. Moore

J. A. Zeigler                                          S.L. Riggs

J.M. Alexander                                     H.L. Moore

Andrew McRoberts                               John Hart

Joel Triplett                                          Eli Dixon

W.E. Coleman                                      J.H. Hale

J.H. Reed                                             A.W. Archer

Wm. H. Briant                                      N.M. Grubb

A.A. Newmaan                                    W.R. Long

A.C. Robeson                                      C. Blankinship

C.A. Jordan                                         S.F. Gettys

J.B. Taylor                                           James M. McMinn

F.M.George                                         W.G. Horton

John Crawford                                     A.J. Nave

C. Long                                                W.L. Lafferty

T. Sullins                                              A. Swafford

P.L. Gamble                                         J.R. Ware

C.L. King                                             John Brandon

J.C. Calhoun                                        W.T. Reynolds

W. H. Howard                                     D.W. Mize

C.M. Keith                                           William Cooke

R.C. Jackson                                        G.M. McCulley

Matt M. Lowry                                    S.H. Howell

W.M. Cate                                           Gideon Cate

James H. Rider                                     J.S. Riggs

J.C. Grant                                            J.W. McAffrey

John Sweeney                                      Wm. Rudd

P.L. Bryan                                            John Rose

Wm. L. Atlee                                       Charles Dickerson

S. Hexter                                              J.S. Bridges

William West                                        John P. Peters

Martin Clayton                                     L.R. Hurst

C. Zimmerman                                      Thomas B. Mayfield

H.L. Moore                                          Wm. Dorsey

Jarrett Stow                                          M.P Jarnagin

Thomas N. Duckworth