Editing Greeneville, Tennessee (section)

===Civil War===
[[File:James-cambpell-shooting-john-hunt-morgan.png|upright|thumb|Artist's depiction of a Union soldier firing the shots that killed General [[John Hunt Morgan]] in Greeneville in 1864]]

In June 1861, on the eve of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], thirty counties of the pro-[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] [[East Tennessee Convention]] met in Greeneville to discuss strategy after state voters had elected to join the [[Confederate States of America]]. The convention sought to create a separate state in East Tennessee that would remain with the United States. The state government in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] rejected the convention's request, however, and East Tennessee was occupied by Confederate forces shortly thereafter.<ref>Eric Lacy, ''Vanquished Volunteers: East Tennessee Sectionalism from Statehood to Secession'' (Johnson City, Tenn.: East Tennessee State University Press, 1965), pp. 217-233.</ref> [[Thomas Dickens Arnold]], a Greeneville resident and former congressman who attended the convention, advocated the use of violent force to allow East Tennessee to break away from Tennessee, and taunted other members of the convention who advocated a more peaceful set of resolutions.<ref>Oliver Perry Temple, ''[https://archive.org/details/easttennesseean00tempgoog/page/n381 <!-- pg=351 quote="arnold poured a perfect broadside of ridicule and sarcasm". --> East Tennessee and the Civil War]'' (R. Clarke Company, 1899), p. 351.</ref>

Several conspirators involved in the pro-Union [[East Tennessee bridge burnings]] lived near what is now [[Mosheim, Tennessee|Mosheim]], and managed to destroy the railroad bridge over Lick Creek in western Greene County on the night of November 8, 1861.  Two of the conspirators, Jacob Hensie and Henry Fry, were executed in Greeneville on November 30, 1861.<ref>Temple, ''[https://archive.org/details/easttennesseean00tempgoog/page/n425 <!-- pg=393 quote="The men thus executed were Jacob M. Hensie and Henry Fry". --> East Tennessee and the Civil War]'', p. 393.</ref>

A portion of [[James Longstreet]]'s army wintered in Greeneville following the failed Siege of Knoxville in late 1863.<ref>Blythe Semmer, "[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=572 Greene County]," ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''. Retrieved: 28 March 2014.</ref>  Confederate general [[John Hunt Morgan]] was killed in Greeneville during a raid by Union soldiers led by [[Alvan Cullem Gillem]] on September 4, 1864.<ref>A.B. Wilson, "[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016187/1902-04-24/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1890&sort=relevance&date2=1922&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=15&words=green+Green+Greeneville+Tennessee&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=tennessee&proxtext=greene&phrasetext=greeneville&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3 Death of Morgan: Correction of Errors in Some Alleged Histories]," ''The National Tribune'', 24 April 1902, p. 7.</ref>