Fielding Hurst – Democrats "often rode over his grave on horseback and spat upon it."

Grand Old Partisan salutes Fielding Hurst, born in Tennessee around 1810. Outbreak of civil war, though a plantation owner, he remained loyal to the Union. Confederates imprisoned him at Nashville for a year until they lost control of the city.

Once freed, Hurst recruited volunteers and was commissioned Colonel of the 6th (U.S.) Tennessee Cavalry. His soldiers battled rebels in western areas of the state.

March 1865, Hurst was elected to the state senate, of a pro-USA legislature. His first vote was to ratify the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery. Three months later, a Republican Governor made him a judge. He was local leader of a GOP-affiliated veterans society, Grand Army of the Republic. Democrats hated him long after his death, on April 13th 1882.
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