Historic Knoxville News #4: Civil War tensions

This episode is based on three articles that tell of two eruptions of violence between Union and Confederate sympathizers during and just after the Civil War, both involving the prominent Baker family whose home is now the Baker Peters Jazz Club. The first event is the shooting death of Dr. Harvey Baker in his home (transcribed here), and the second is the lynching of his son in downtown Knoxville. Steve Cotham follows the readings with some comments about the Baker family and tensions between neighbors during this period.

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To read about the ghost legend of the Baker Peters house, check out Mysterious Knoxville by Charles Edwin Price. For more about Governor "Parson" Brownlow, see chapter 8 of Betsey Beeler Creekmore's book, Knoxville! or read this short biographical article (with portrait) from our Virtual Reference Library database.

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