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S. P. Carter. This officer, like Nelson, belonging to the navy, was a native ofEast Tennessee, and it was part of the original plan of the East Tennesseeexpedition that he should enter that section and organize men to receive thearms that Nelson was to bring. This was found to be impracticable, and heopened his camp at Barboursville and the men began to come to him.
In August, W. T. Ward, a prominent lawyer of Gfreensburg, commenced re-cruiting a brigade and soon had twenty-two companies pledged to rendezvouswhen he should obtain the necessary authority from Washington. In Chris-tian county, Colonel J. F. Buckner, a wealthy lawyer and planter, recruiteda regiment from companies which organized originally as Home Guards, butsoon determined to enter the volunteer service. He established a camp fivemiles north of Hopkinsville, where a few companies remained at a time.Christian county was strongly Unionist, while all the counties west of it wereoverwhelmingly secessionist. Camp Boone was only a few miles from itssouthern border, and Fort Donelson about twenty miles south-west. ColonelBuckner had a 6-pounder cannon, which could be heard at Camp Boone andmade his vicinity additionally disagreeable to those neighbors.
The neutrality proclaimed by Governor Magoffin on the 20tli of May hadbeen formally recognized by the Confederate authorities and treated withrespect by those of the United States , but it was destined to speedy termina-tion. It served a useful purpose in its time, and a policy that had the respect-ful consideration of the leading men of that day could not have been soabsurd as it seems now.
On the 3d of September General Polk, who was in command in westernTennessee, caused Columbus, Kentucky , to be occupied, on account of theappearance of a body of Union troops on the opposite side of the Missis-
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