I’ve written before about the inveterate confederates who turned to tax resistance (and often, terrorism) in the wake of the Union victory in the American Civil War, particularly in Louisiana and South Carolina. , we turn to Tennessee.
This comes from the edition of Friends’ Review:
Gen. [George Henry] Thomas, commanding the Military Division of the Tennessee, has issued an order declaring that as the officers of the U.S. Treasury charged with the collection of direct taxes and internal revenue in the States composing that division have been, on account of the refusal of certain persons to pay their just indebtedness to the government, repeatedly compelled to invoke the aid of the military authority, hereafter all persons neglecting or refusing to pay such dues to the proper officer, shall be liable to arrest and trial before a military commission.
