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On June 17, 1861, delegates from every East Tennessee county except Rhea met here for four days to try to keep East Tennessee in the Union after the state's secession. Leaders of the movement included Thomas D. Arnold, William G. Brownlow, William B. Carter, Andrew Johnson, Horace Maynard, Thomas A. R. Nelson, and Connolly F. Trigg. Tennessee replied by occupying East Tennessee with Confederate troops under the command of General Felix Zollicoffer.
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Greeneville, Tennessee · United States
