Judge Levi Trewhitt

1. Exerpt from East Tennessee and the Civil War, by Oliver Perry Temple:

Levi Trewhitt of Bradley county near seventy years of age was also arrested and sent to Tuscaloosa without trial where he died some months afterward. His offense was being a Union man. Mr Trewhitt was an able lawyer had been prominent at the bar for a great many years and was a peaceable and an upright citizen, He was the father of Daniel C Trewhitt, a colonel in the Federal army and for many years after the war an able chancellor and circuit judge in the Chattanooga chancery division and circuit.

Google ebook, http://books.google.com/books?id=g8xYAAAAMAAJ

2. Excerpt from Notable Men of Tennessee: From 1833 to 1875, Their Times and Their Contemporaries,also by Oliver Perry Temple:

Daniel C Trewhitt

The subject of this sketch was a young man engaged in the practice of law in Hamilton County when the Civil War broke out in 1861. He was born and reared in Bradley County East Tennessee. The well known lawyer and highly esteemed citizen Levi Trewhitt was his father, whose sad death in a Southern prison is still talked of and remembered with sorrow by thousands of East Tennesseeans. In his old age he was seized and after being in close confinement some time at Knoxville, he was carried off to prison at Tuscaloosa thence to Mobile, without a trial for no other crime except being a Union man. One of the deepest stains on the character of the Southern Confederacy is the treatment of this innocent old man.

Google ebook, http://books.google.com/books?id=Yw8UAAAAYA AJ

3. JS Hurlburt's History of the Rebellion in Bradley County, East Tennessee contains an entire chapter on the arrest, imprisonment, and eventialy release of most of the men arrested with Judge Trewhitt.

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL13498606M/History_of_the_rebellion_in_Bradley_County_East_Tennessee

4. According to a Wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Tennessee_bridge-burning_conspiracy, the arrest of Judge Trewhitt and others was in response to an attack on several rail bridges by Union sympathizers in Conferdacy-occupied East Tennessee.

- Information compiled by Robin Richmond, 9/2012 and 8/2013