President of the United States, James A. Garfield, stands out as quite an intellectual. He could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, simultaneously. Governor Isham Green Harris of Tennessee carried a burden through the Civil War that was a tremendous temptation. Harris cast his lot with the Confederacy and was ousted by the Union forces. Leaving the Tennessee governor's office, Harris took a parcel with him that he carried through four years of war. What was the parcel that never left his side? $650,000 in cash that belonged to the sovereign state of Tennessee, which he returned in full. Believe It or Not!
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