In Tennessee, exiled U.S. Congressman Clement Vallandigham is delivered to the Confederate lines

Ohio Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham had been found guilty of disloyalty at a court martial in Cincinatti a few weeks before and sentenced to banishment from the United States to the Confederacy.  The sentence was carried out in the early morning when a cavalry escort delivered him to a picket of the Eighth Alabama Infantry near Shelbyville, Tennessee. Vallandigham asked the CSA officer in charge that he be treated as a United States citizen and a prisoner of war.  (By John Osborne) 
Source Citation
"Vallandigham in Dixie: His Transfer to the Rebel Lines," New York Times, May 26, 1863, p. 8.
"Vallandigham Sent Home: Interesting Details of the Shipment," Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1863, p. 1.
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