Parson Brownlow returned from Fort Warren Saturday
afternoon, with Lieutenant Colonel White of the Tennessee cavalry, whose
release was ordered upon the representations of Mr. Brownlow and other Union
men of Tennessee, that White had joined the rebels only to save his life and
had never fought for them. The battalion
which garrisons the Fort was reviewed by Gov. Andrew and Staff, and a salute
was fired in his honor. – {Boston Jour.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1
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