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Unlike most southern unionists, Methodist preacher William G. Brownlow refused to renounce his loyalty to the Union after the Civil War broke out. This is a collection of excerpts from his journal, offering an explication of his unionism and a narrative of his travails under... Read Full Overview

"Readers will find Brownlow unique, above all, but as entertaining as he is sometimes thrillingly loathsome, full of great energy and rhetorical skill and rambunctiousness in the tradition of the tall tale vernacular writers of the time."-David Madden, Director of the United... Read Full Overview