Translation: It's not on Geocities, Temple of Democracy, or a cut n' paste file on Walt's harddrive.
If you have access to this magazine, put some of it in the record.
Gladly. When I have the chance to go back to the library I'll make a copy and post an excerpt. I'll also transcribe the documents themselves once I get them from the archives, just as I indicated earlier.
In the meantime, I did recently come across a web reference to the event. It's listed as a note next to one of the soldiers on the 32nd Tennessee Co. K's muster role.
"SANDERS, George W. - He was a brother to Chapman SANDERS. Both men were sons of Thomas G. SANDERS and Mary Ann McDANIEL sanders. George W. was shot in the arm while in service and it went lame. After serving his tour of enlistment in the 32nd, young George came home to find Yankees all over Tullahoma and Franklin County environs. George, his father, Thomas, and his uncle William were shot and killed by Yankees of Capt. William H. LEWIS' Company A, 42nd Missouri Vol. Inf. US, on 11 Jan. 1865. Family rumor has it that SANDERS would not reveal where some Confederate guerillas were hiding."
http://www.tngenweb.org/franklin/francivl.htm#Ikard
If we agree that DSL is better than smoke signals, I don't see what your problem is.
It took me about ten seconds to pull this up on Google.com:
"I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner, as the authority of the different state governments extends over the several states. To be fearful of vesting Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me to be the very climax of popular absurdity and madness."
George Washington to John Jay, 15 August 1786
Perhaps you can explain why the words of George Washington are any less compelling because they are available electronically.
Presdient Lincoln was defending the government of the framers, by the way.
Walt