1862 CIVIL WAR First-Hand-Sketches of Secession-WG Brownlow-Tennessee Whig Party

  

1862 Book-Sketches of Secession- CIVIL WAR RESOURCE -Knoxville TENN. Parson WG Brownlow - RARE! Political Whig and Tennessee Governor- Historical Civil War autobiography and narrative. Used -Plain Covers w/blind imprints at front and back edges, in a common 1860s veteran purple pebbled color boards.

Good condition, as well an authentic resource written during the US Civil War in 1862 created by a newpaper man, and governor, while living among rebels in the heat of 1862 beginning of the Civil War. An autobiographical account -1st Edition. 6" x 7" tall, 458pp. Brownlow, a patriarchal minister, newspaper publisher, journalist, was a governor of Tennessee with observations and reports of politics from his own experiences within the first year of the rebellion.

BIO: Based in Knoxville, devoted Whig Party newspaper man living among Tennessean rebels at the advent of Civil War, this story is a page turner. Much later during reconstruction, as Parson Brownlow became Governor after having witnessed many tragedies into 1865, as well as being incarcerated himself.

He became known for his combative and vituperative nature as Governor of Tennessee and became a formidable foe of the Ku Klux Klan. An outspoken advocate for the Union, Brownlow continued to ridicule secessionist Confederates suppressing his paper, the Knoxville Whig, at the time causing him to flee in 1861 at the war's outbreak. Brownlow was editor of the last pro-union newspaper (Knoxville Whig) in the antebellum South. Of advertising in rear including the ad for the author's own newspaper.

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