William Gannaway Brownlow letter and miscellany 1866

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William Gannaway Brownlow letter and miscellany 1866

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7887

Tennessee Governor. Letter to James Miller McKim concerning the Freedmen's Bureau and President Johnson's attitudes toward Reconstruction (1866). Also present is a biography and an engraved portrait of Brownlow.

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6315309

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

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William G. Brownlow was a minister, newspaper publisher, and governor, who attacked the Confederacy after Tennessee seceded from the Union. He was forced to cease publishing and was imprisoned, but he was enventually freed and was escorted to Union lines in March 1862. He toured the North, stirring up support for East Tennessee Unionists and publishing books and articles, including his gubernatorial policies, which helped Tennessee become the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to th...

MÕKim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874

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