Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book - Hardcover

Brownlow, William Gannaway

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807123536 ISBN 13: 9780807123539

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1999

Synopsis

East Tennessee newspaper editor and Methodist preacher William G. "Parson" Brownlow, a man of fervent principles and combative temperament, gained fame during the secession crisis as a staunch, outspoken southern unionist. Unlike most southern unionists, however, Brownlow refused to renounce his loyalty to the Union after the Civil War broke out. He continued to write editorial tirades against the Confederacy until forcibly silenced by southern authorities. Arrested, jailed, and ultimately banished to the North, Brownlow continued his war of words against the Confederacy through speaking tours and through the publication in 1862 of Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels - a bestselling but ill-organized hodgepodge of his editorials, speeches, letters, and commentary. Secessionists and Other Scoundrels, a collection of selected excerpts from Brownlow's original, offers an accessible and powerful explication of the parson's Unionism and a moving narrative of his travails under Confederate rule, without sacrificing the vitriolic prose and scathing wit for which he was celebratedand denounced.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen V. Ash is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and former managing editor of the Journal of East Tennessee History. His previous books include Middle Tennessee Society Transformed and When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865.

About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807123536
• ISBN 13: 9780807123539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 157