Sketches of the Rise Progress Decline of Secession 1862 Brownlow Among the Rebel for Sale

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Sketches of the Rise Progress Decline of Secession 1862 Brownlow Among the Rebel:
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Blind-Stamped Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Blind-Stamped Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6_" - 7_" tall. 458 p., illus. 8 p. adv. William G. Brownlow [1805-1877], editor of the last pro-union newspaper in the antebellum South served as governor of Tennessee during the early years of Reconstruction. An outspoken and unconditional advocate of the Union, Brownlow continued to ridicule secession until Confederate authorities suppressed the Knoxville Whig and caused him to flee in the fall of 1861. His press and type were destroyed and the Confederate secretary of war, Judah Benjamin, banished Brownlow to the North. When eastern Tennessee was brought under the control of Federal forces in 1863, Brownlow returned and was instrumental in restoring civil government there. Then, in 1865, he was elected governor. Toward the end of his second term, Brownlow was elected to the U.S. Senate. In 1875 he returned to Knoxville, bought back the Whig which he sold in 1869, and edited the paper until shortly before his death.