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The Bridge Burners
In 1861, a group of forty Unionists of East Tennessee, some of them from Knoxville, set out to put their actions where their politics were. They plotted to burn regional railroad bridges to stop or at least slow Confederate soldiers … Continue reading
Brownlow’s religious attacks
Parson Brownlow of Knoxville liked to say that he was “never neutral” on any issue. Even before he became the scourge of East Tennessee Confederates, the Methodist minister had been attacking Baptists who were encroaching on Methodist popularity among the … Continue reading
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Parson Brownlow’s prediction
In 1862, fiery Knoxville Unionist newspaper editor and Methodist parson William G. Brownlow, turned his steam-powered presses to producing a personal memoir predicting the collapse of secession. He wasn’t far off—secession collapsed three years later. “Sketches of the Rise, Progress, … Continue reading
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Reprise: That Yankee-lovin’ parson
Dissent from Confederate political-correctness was not unusual in the Civil War, as professional historian Victoria Bynum’s book relates. Parson Bill Brownlow probably was unique, however, in his willingness to risk all by publicizing his dissent in the pages of his … Continue reading
Susan Brownlow’s grave
Susan Brownlow, daughter of the parson the Confederacy hated, was a young widow (Sawyers) with a five-year-old child at the time of the novel, though she often left the child with one of the family’s house slaves. She was a … Continue reading
Bill Brownlow: Confederate dissenter
Dissent from Confederate political-correctness was not unusual in the Civil War, as professional historian Victoria Bynum’s latest book relates. Parson Bill Brownlow probably was unique, however, in his willingness to risk all by publicizing his dissent in the pages of … Continue reading
Susan Brownlow
Parson William Gannaway Brownlow was as popular in the North as he was despised in the South. So when the Confederates finally kicked him out of Knoxville, he and his wife Elisa and their daughter, Susan, enjoyed great acclaim in … Continue reading
Camp Chase Prison
In the novel, as in history, Thirteenth Mississippi Lt. Col. Alfred George Washington O’Brien was captured in Fort Sanders. His older sister, Elisa, the wife of radical Unionist Parson William Brownlow, had the privilege of nursing his minor wounds in … Continue reading
Stonewall’s Unionist sister
One of the themes of Knoxville 1863 is the bitter division of the town and surrounding area between Unionists and Confederates. Leila Ellis, Confederate Major Clayton Ellis’s widow, is herself a Union sympathizer. Not to mention Knoxville Unionist Elisa Brownlow’s … Continue reading
Parson Brownlow
A Mathew Brady photo of radical preacher, newspaper editor/publisher and politician Parson Brownlow, either as governor of Tennessee, 1865-69 or U.S. Senator 1869-75. He got his parson title as a Methodist circuit rider in the 1820s. He plays a minor … Continue reading
