Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-15

and carried it to Augusta and deposit
ed it with a Georgia bank, where the
federals captured it. The Tennessean
was told at Greensboro by Lieut.. Col.
Brown and others that Gov. Harris
had passed Greensboro several weeks
before on his way westward.
The following receipts appear in the
appendix to the journal of thelegisla
ture for the years 1865 and 1S66,as re-
ported by the committee appointed to
examine into the assets of the Bank
of Tennessee:
On page 81 of the appendix will be
found: son receipt of Isham &. Har-
ris for $1,000 in gold coin as salary as
governor from November /, 1868, to
November l, 1864, dated March II,
1863"
On page 2lappears the following:
$3.50.
GREENBoRO, GA, April Il, 1860.
Received of Bank of Tennessee
seven hundred and fifty dollars in
gold coin in full of one-quarter salary
as governor state of Tennessee.
|. G. HARRIS, ETC.
Per Leon Trousdale, Col. q A. ID.
c.
This receipt to be cancelled by Gov,
Harris own receipt in the hands Oft.
d, Flippin for the same amount.
Also on same page as follows:
Received of Joel A. Battle, Treasurer
of Tennessee, seven hundred and fifty
dollars in gold coin, which is in full
Of my salary as governor ofTennessee
for the quarter ending the LIST of Feb
ruary, 1865. IsIIAM G. HARRIS.
Greensboro, Ga, March II, 1865.
The above is to duplicate with this
additional remark:
Leon Trousdale, aid-de-camp, has
receipted for the last above named re-
ceipt, which Col. Battle can take up
with this. j. 4. c. ATKINS.
On the twentieth page appears:
$1,000.
GRIFFIN, Ga, April II, 1868.
One day after date we promise to
pay the Bank of Tennessee or order
one thousand dollars in gold coin for
value received.
Witness our hands and seals.
[Seal] j. d. G. ATKINSON.
The obvious discrepancies in the
two last signaturesare doubtless typo
graphical errors.
1t may be observed that Harris
drew his salary up to the last hour,
and all the time in gold coin, and for
one year and four months after his
constitutional term of six years had
expired. He was first elected gov
ernor ofTennessee in 1857 and was
inaugurated November 3, 1857. His
term of office, including his reelected
terms, expired in November, 1868.
Caruthers had been electedto succeed
him, but did not qualify, for there
was no state government and no func-
ton q governor could perform, as the
state was in the hands of the feder-
ais.
1t will be observed Harris and At
kins were at Greensboro and Griffin
in March ard April, 1860, and both
had drawn gold from the Bank Of
Tennessee, one "on salary account
and the other as a loan. We learn
that Gen. Atkins says he afterwards
repaid the money he borrowed, but
there is no record that Mr.. Harris ever
repaid the money he overdrew on
"salary account" Both went west
to prevent capture. Mr.. Harris, who
has been given credit for delivering
the school fund to the authorities
went beyond the Mississippi after
drawing his gold and left the bank tC
its fate. 1t is also to be remarked
that his gold was worth more than
500 to 81 in the confederate money
which the Tennessee soldiers had tt
take as pay whenever they could ge
even that almost worthless paper fO
money.
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