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Genre/Form: | Printed books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877. Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession. Philadelphia : G.W. Childs ; Cincinnati : Applegate & Co., 1862 (OCoLC)565491879 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Gannaway Brownlow; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) |
OCLC Number: | 3005082 |
Notes: | "Known as Parson Brownlow's book."--Sabin, Bibl. amer. |
Description: | 458 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm |
Contents: | Autobiographical sketch -- Thirty-nine lashes and a coat of tar and feathers promised me -- Case of Rev. Dr. Neely, the Alabama secessionist -- South Carolina in 1780 -- Threatening to hang us for our principles -- Patronage withdrawn from my paper -- Position of border-state union men -- The great enemy of the Cotton States -- Secession forgeries at Knoxville -- The spirit of secession -- The distinction between the parties -- The conspiracy to break up the government -- Which side is the Lord on? -- Speech of W.G. Brownlow, delivered in Knoxville, in October, 1861, before the late presidential election, before the Bell-and Everett Club -- East Tennessee -- Candidate for Governor -- Exhorting the secession leaders to volunteer -- General Zollicoffer's correspondence -- Incidents connected with the great southern rebellion in Tennessee. |
Other Titles: | Parson Brownlow's book |
Responsibility: | by W.G. Brownlow. |
Abstract:
This work discusses the rise, progression and decline of pro-secession views in Tennessee before and during the Civil War.
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