[rustbucket]

I have a copy of an 1860 letter from an ancient Tennessee ancestor of mine. The letter mentions Brownlow but didn't give an opinion of him. I don't know the politics of this ancestor, but his children and relatives all fought for the Confederates. He was a county official and never had a slave that I know of.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

What part of Tennessee was your relative from? Brownlow was an old Whig as well as a Unionist and Whigs were often not a big hit in the western 2/3s of the state.

But in the East, he was very popular figure and a high profile personality.