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- GLC#
- GLC06189
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1862
- Author/Creator
- Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877
- Title
- Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession; with a narrative of personal adventures among the rebels.
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 466 p. : ill. Height: 19.1 cm, Width: 13.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Published by George W. Childs. 458 pages of text followed by eight pages of advertisements. Contains a frontispiece engraved portrait of Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig. Brownlow writes, "I have prepared this work from the single stand-point of uncompromising devotion to the American Union as established by our fathers, and unmitigated hostility to the armed rebels who are seeking its destruction."
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