Refugees have poured into Nashville during the…

Refugees have poured into Nashville during the war, because jobs are plentiful in the depots, warehouses and hospitals serving the war effort, and, furthermore, the city is much safer place than the countryside.

Unionists and Confederate sympathizers have both flooded in, as have free blacks and escaped slaves, and businessmen from the North.

Tennessee adopts a constitutional amendment forbidding human property on February 22, 1865.