Carroll County Tennessee

    Carroll County Tennessee  
 

  37th Congress, House of Representatives,
Report No. 46

Alvin Hawkins, February 29, 1863-ordered to be

printed Mr. Dawes , from the Committee of Elections, made

the following REPORT

The Committee of Elections, to whom were referred

the credentials of Mr. Alvin Hawkins, claiming to

have been elected a Representative from the 9th

congressional district in Tennessee submit the following

report:

The ninth congressional district in Tennessee is composed

of the following counties, viz: Carroll, Dyer, Gibson,

Henderson, Henry, Lauderdale, Obion, Tipton, and Weakley,

nine in number. This election was held on the 29th of

December 1863 pursuant to writs of election issued by

Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee----

Huntingdon, Tennessee, February 2, 1863

I do certify that I opened and held an election in

the county of Carroll, Tennessee on December 29, 1862

for the purpose of electing a representative to the

Congress of the United States from the ninth congressional

district of Tennessee and that Alvin Hawkins received six

hundred forty seven votes and W.W. Freeman received two votes.

I further certify that I opened and held an election in the

county of Carroll, Tennessee on the 20th of January, 1863

for the purpose of electing a representative to the congress

of the United States from the ninth congressional district

and that Alvin Hawkins received three hundred and sixty-four

votes and W.W. Freeman received three votes.

I further certify that on the 29th of December, 1862 Brigadier

General N.B. Forrest with his cavalry force of confederates and

Brigadier General J.C. Sullivan, with his federal force were

both in the county of Carroll, Tennessee, which prevented the

people from assembling and exercising the elective franchise

on that day. Had it not been for the presence of the two armies

in our midst there would have been three-fourths of a full vote

polled in said county.

I further state that General S.A. Hurlburt's order postponing

the election until the 20th of January 1863 which was, by a

portion of our people , construed to embrace the ninth

congressional district, whilst another portion believed it

did not, is the reason why polls were opened that day, also

the reason why there was no more votes polled on that day.

John Norwood

Sheriff of Carroll County, Tennessee