The Union Flag

[2] Grisham had led a company of the 8th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment and later served directly under Major General Alvan Cullem Gillem.

[5][6] This shift followed Grisham's gradual radicalization, influenced by politicians such as William G. Brownlow,[4] and his increasingly vocal anti-Confederate stance.

[4] The paper's editor mocked the idea of Frederick Douglass running for president in December 1865, suggesting that white people would not want to vote for an African-American candidate.

[9] He also wrote that freed slaves only had "crude ideas of freedom", had poor character, and needed what historian Richard H. Abbott describes as "close supervision".

[10] The paper advocated confiscation and sale of the property owned by former Confederates, with the money going towards paying debts the nation incurred from the war or helping people who had been on the Union's side recoup their losses.