Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
A good ca. 1860 unmounted albumen, 3" x 3 3/4", photograph of William G. "Parson" Brownlow (1805-1877) postwar governor of Tennessee and senator who opposed almost all of President Johnson's policies. A period inscription on the verso reads: "taken from an old daguerreotype." Near fine. Throughout the Spring of 1861, Brownlow canvassed East Tennessee, giving dozens of pro-Union speeches. In May and June 1861, Brownlow represented Knox County at the East Tennessee Union Convention, which unsuccessfully petitioned the state legislature to allow East Tennessee to form a separate, Union-aligned state. In the weeks following Tennessee's secession in June 1861, Brownlow used the Whig to defend Unionists accused of treasonous acts by Confederate authorities. By the Fall of 1861, the Whig was the last pro-Union newspaper in the South.
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