Secessionists and other scoundrels
Subtitle: selections from Parson Brownlow's book
By: edited, with an introduction by Stephen V. Ash.
Contributors: Ash, Stephen V.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877.; Secession -- Southern States.; Refugees -- Southern States.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.; Tennessee -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.; Tennessee, East -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-152) and index.
Selections from William Gannaway Brownlow's Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession. 1862.