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Nashville, the Occupied City

其他書名	The First Seventeen Months, February 16, 1862 to June 30, 1863
出版	Tennessee Historical Society, 1985
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=q-oTAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The first 17 months of the union Army occupation of Nashville, Tennessee, was anxious time in the city. Stunned by the fall of Fort Donelson 40 miles to the northwest, the people had been shocked by the Confederate decision to abandon their city without a fight. Panic followed the shock as many fled southward beyond the reach of the enemy. The Union Army arrived in force, followed by the military governor, Andrew Johnson. Finding few Nashvillians of Union persuasion, Johnson exercised tight control over the populace. He suspended the elective process and appointed most public officials, postulated rules by which the press existed, and harassed leading citizens by threats and arrests until they signed his loyalty oath. Feeding and supplying union soldiers quickly became the biggest business industrial, paralleled only by providing medical care to the sick and wounded. Normal commerce was at a standstill; most congregations were displaced from their houses of worship; public schools were closed. Spies and smugglers busied themselves in the area, and the influx of camp followers of all kinds created major problems. -- Publisher.