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English: Letter from pro-Union Knoxville newspaper publisher William "Parson" Brownlow to Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin complaining that he had been wrongly jailed, and asking for permission to flee to Union territory. J.C. Ramsey, the attorney that jailed Brownlow, was the son of Knoxville historian J.G.M. Ramsey (author of the Annals of Tennessee) and grandson of Col. Francis Alexander Ramsey, builder of the "Ramsey House," which still stands near Knoxville. Brownlow and the Ramseys had been quarreling since the 1850s. The letter reads: "Knoxville Jail, Dec. 16, 1861. Hon. J.P. Benjamin: You authorized General Crittenden to give me passports and an escort to send me into the old Government, and he invited me here for that purpose; but a third-rate county-court lawyer, acting as your Confederate attorney, took me out of his hands and cast me into this prison. I am anxious to learn which is your highest authority, the Secretary of War, a major-general, or a dirty little drunken attorney such as J.C. Ramsey is! You are reported to have said to a gentleman in Richmond that I am a bad man, dangerous to the Confederacy, and that you desire me out of it. Just give me my passports, and I will do for your Confederacy more than the devil has ever done, I will quit the country!" |
| Date | 16 December 1861, published in 1862 |
| Source | William G. Brownlow, Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, Applegate & Co., 1862), p. 318. |
| Author | William Gannaway Brownlow |
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