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  Civil War in Knoxville
Knoxville, a small city of about 3,700 people according to the 1860 census, was strategically very important to the Confederates during the Civil War.
Knoxville was the home of one of the most intense Union supporters, William Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig newspaper.
After some skirmishes west of Knoxville (near Campbell's Station), the Federal troops entrenched themselves on the edge of Knoxville with trenches that ran from Melrose Hall (behind Hodges Library) to the present junction of Laurel and 17th Street.
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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Whig   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The formal name of the Whigs was originally the Country Party (as opposed to the Tories, the Court Party); this was changed in the 19th Century to the Liberal Party (and the Tories to the Conservative Party).
The Whigs were those who supported the exclusion of James II and VII from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners") and the Tories were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
The Whig view led to serious distortions in later views of 17th century history, as Macaulay and his followers attempted to fit the complex factional politics of the Restoration into the neat categories of early 19th century political divisions.
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 City of Knoxville - Knoxville Fun Facts
Knoxville was settled in 1791 and established in 1792.
Knoxville is home to cable TV's HGTV, which is one of the fastest growing networks in cable history with nearly 84 million households in less than nine years.
Knoxville is home to the East TN Clean Fuels Coalition which serves the area with action for and information on alternative fuels, like biodiesel, propane, ethanol and hybrids.
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 Knoxville Whig Cartoons
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Knoxville Whig cartoon 1 - catalog reference csl1392
Related topics: parson brownlow, parson wg brownlow, carpetbagger, carpetbaggers, william g brownlow, william brownlow, knoxville whig,
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 Dixieweb - The South Online
Including in one’s itinerary a visit to the historic and majestic ante-bellum Mabry-Hazen House in Knoxville should be interesting for fans attending athletic events at the University of Tennessee or vacationers to Dollywood, Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains.
An English major, her career included staff writing for the New York Times and Knoxville Journal, teaching at old Knoxville High School and research assistant for Dr. John C. Hodges of the University of Tennessee in publishing the first edition of the well known Harbrace College Handbook of English.
In court, the intimate relationship of the couple was revealed and the story in the newspapers shocked the city.
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 WRITERS OF TENNESSEE
From 1843 when Brownlow's Whig, published in Jonesboro, won its fight against Andrew Jackson and the Democratic supremacy, his papers continued to be storm centers of political and religious turmoil.
The Whig was removed to Knoxville in 1849; and in 1861, because its editor openly supported the Unionist cause, the paper was suppressed by the Confederates.
Philip Hamer, of Knoxville, is the author of the four-volume Tennessee, a History (1933), which is recognized as a standard work.
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 Acknowledgements
McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, TN * Roane County Heritage Commission.
City Behind a Fence Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1942-1946, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1981.
An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1997.
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The celebrated Parson Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig, a widely circulated paper, who was afterwards elected Governor of Tennessee, and after the war was United States Senator, took bold grounds against the South.
After Burnside's occupancy of Knoxville there was a general "On to Richmond," "On to Chattanooga," and "On to Atlanta" cry in the Federal army.
He was closely followed by the Federals and had quite a skirmish near Sevierville, on 7 or 8 September, 1863, but he crossed the Smoky Mountains and at once securely blockaded all the roads leading in that direction from near Paint Rock to near Ducktown.
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 WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (17... - Online Information article about WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (17...
Bank of Tennessee at Knoxville, and managed it so well that for several years during this See also:
Georgia, though President Jackson made strong efforts to defeat him in the former state.
About 1838 he became a Whig in politics, and when the Democratic legislature of Tennessee instructed him to vote for Van Buren's sub-See also:
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 PLPOW: Atrocities - Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig
In 1865, the Methodist Rev. William G. Brownlow of Knoxville became the carpet bagger Governor of Tennessee as head of the minority Radical Unionists.
Earlier as editor of Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, he was pro-southern and pro-slavery.
He became a fanatical Unionist and was expelled to the North.
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