The Buell Military Commission was an 1862–63 U.S. government investigation into the command decisions of U.S. Army general Don Buell in the first years of the American Civil War. The commission was he
"Statement of Major General Buell, in review of the evidence before the military commission" (1863, retrieved from the Library of Congress)
The East Tennessee bridge burnings was a series of guerrilla operations carried out during the American Civil War by Southern Unionists in Confederate-held East Tennessee in 1861. The operations, plan
Cover of Harper's Weekly, showing the bridge-burning conspirators swearing allegiance to the American flag
Rev. Carter photographed c. 1850
Bridges targeted by the bridge burners on the night of November 8, 1861; the red squares indicate bridges that were successfully destroyed; Knoxville and Chattanooga are shown for reference
Depiction of the attacks in Barton's A Hero In Homespun