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56 JAMBS BAIRD WEAVER

said to those people — knowing them to be all
in sympathy with the South — that if they
would send in to our different posts what they
had to sell we would buy it from them, but if we
went after it we would not pay for it.

"Now, the refugee order was an order from
General Sherman to me and I gave it to you.
General Sherman planted himself upon the
ground that these were their own people. And
if because they were Union people they force'd
them out of their line into ours, that the Eebels
in our lines should take care of them.''^Ba

Another account of Colonel Weaver's con-
duct as commander of the post at Pulaski was
by a resident of the place written twenty-eight
years later in reply to an inquiry by the editor
of the The Weekly Toiler of Nashville, Ten-
nessee. The writer referred to Colonel Weaver
"as a Christian gentleman" whom he had
known well, as his tent had been on his "prem-
ises, within sixty feet of my dwelling house, for
one whole winter. His tent was his head-
quarters until he was ordered to the court-
house, which was in full view, to take command
of the post, which duty he performed until his
regiment was ordered to Chattanooga. He was
commander of the post say about half the
winter of 1863-4, but his tent was not taken
down until he made his final move. . . .

"I had built my house in the edge of a grove



	56 JAMBS BAIRD WEAVER said to those people — knowing them to be all in sympathy with the South — that if they would send in to our different posts what they had to sell we would buy it from them, but if we went after it we would not pay for it. "Now, the refugee order was an order from General Sherman to me and I gave it to you. General Sherman planted himself upon the ground that these were their own people. And if because they were Union people they force'd them out of their line into ours, that the Eebels in our lines should take care of them.''^Ba Another account of Colonel Weaver's con- duct as commander of the post at Pulaski was by a resident of the place written twenty-eight years later in reply to an inquiry by the editor of the The Weekly Toiler of Nashville, Ten- nessee. The writer referred to Colonel Weaver "as a Christian gentleman" whom he had known well, as his tent had been on his "prem- ises, within sixty feet of my dwelling house, for one whole winter. His tent was his head- quarters until he was ordered to the court- house, which was in full view, to take command of the post, which duty he performed until his regiment was ordered to Chattanooga. He was commander of the post say about half the winter of 1863-4, but his tent was not taken down until he made his final move. . . . "I had built my house in the edge of a grove