Original sentence: The 1st was one of only four districts in Tennessee whose congressmen did not resign when Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861.Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson was elected as a Unionist (the name used by a coalition of Republicans, northern Democrats and anti-Confederate Southern Democrats) to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but he was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to Washington, D
Edited sentence: The 1st was one of four districts in Tennessee whose congressmen did not resign when Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861.Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson was reelected as a Unionist (the name used by a coalition of Republicans, northern Democrats and anti-Confederate Southern Democrats) to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but he was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to Washington, D