Parson Brownlow and the Unionists of East Tennessee

  • Title: Parson Brownlow and the Unionists of East Tennessee
  • Date: 1864
  • Description: This print depicts a middle aged man in nineteenth-century costume.
  • Historical Note: William Gannaway Brownlow (1805-1877), who was known as "Parson Brownlow" because he had been a circuit-riding minister, was an outspoken newspaper editor in Knoxville, Tennessee at the outset of the Civil War. During Confederate occupation of the city, Brownlow went north on a lecture tour, accompanied by his daughter, Susan. This novel, which was sold on his northern tour, contains an account of Brownlow's life as editor of the Knoxville Whig in Civil War East Tennessee, including his imprisonment by Confederate troops in the winter of 1861.
  • Contributing Institution: Vanderbilt University Special Collections
  • Publisher: New York: Beadle and Company
  • Rights: Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact Vanderbilt University Special Collections.
  • Digital Publisher: Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
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