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"Brownlow was accused of treason in for publishing items such as the wry description of a man in April 1861...Brownlow was given an opportunity to escape prosecution by admitting his errors and swearing loyalty to the Confederacy. The Union flag, still flying over his home, stood for his response. His charge sheet was expanded with specious allegations that he ahd been involved in acts of sabotage. He gave up, and suspended publication in October 26: "The issue of the Whig must necessarily be the last for some time to come - I am unable to say how long. The Confederate authorities have determined upon my arrest, and I am to be indicted before the 'Grand Jury of the Confederate Court' meeting at Nashville...The real object of my arrest and contemplated imprisonment is, to dry up, break down, silence, and destroy the last and only Union paper left in the eleven seceded states..."

He was to be sent to jail, Brownlow continued, "because I have failed to recognize the hand of God in the work of breaking up the American government, and the inauguration of the most wicked, cruel, unnatural, and uncalled for war, ever in recorded history." He pledged, if it was ever within his power, to make good on his obligations to his subscribers, and tried to get away. He was caught in North Carolina, returned to Nashville, and put in jail, where he contracted typhoid fever. His confinement was shifted to house arrest; then, still in poor health, he was released and banished to the North on March 3, 1863."

From "Blue & Grey in Black and White: Newspapers in the Civil War" by Brayton Harris, pp 112-113.

His [Brownlow's] confinement was shifted to house arrest; then, still in poor health, he was released and banished to the North on March 3, 1863."

From "Blue & Grey in Black and White: Newspapers in the Civil War" by Brayton Harris, pp 112-113.

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HEADQUARTERS,
Knoxville, March 3, 1862.

Honorable J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War.

SIR: Your telegraphic order [of 1st instant] to transmit Doctor Brownlow out of Tennessee by "Cumberland Mountains or any safe road" was received on Saturday. This morning I sent Doctor Brownlow in charge of Colonel [H. Casey] Young of General Carroll's staff with a guard of ten men to Nashville and thence to Kentucky. I did not deem it safe to send by any of the mountain passes.

With great respect, I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

G. H. MONSARRAT,
Captain, Commanding Post