u/Popular_Mistake_6404

> Methodist preacher

> Beat a man with a cane in the street for voting for a different political party than him

> Defended slavery for like 12 years and refused to debate Frederick Douglass because of his race

> Ragebaited the entire south

> went north to see a doctor and spent the entire time complaining about how much New York sucks

> calls all of his opponents ugly or drunk pedophiles until they leave the state

> Would rather kill himself than join the confederate army

> Children are a Nudist berserker, a guy who beat someone to death with his bare hands at college, and a woman who pulled a gun on foir confederate pfficers trying to take her American Flag

> Became an abolitionist sometime between 1859-1862 basically overnight

> Invited to the White House by fellow Appalachad Abraham Lincoln but refused because he hated D.C

> becomes champion of Civil Rights, Black americans can vote in Tennessee before they can in most northern states. Coerced the State Legislature to pass the 14th and 15th amendments with the threat of prison

> fought a private war with the KKK (Professional Racists dont consort with the Minor Leagues)

> Spoke at the opening of Knoxville College, last public speech was across from William Yardley, Black candidate for Govorner of Tennessee

> Flatlanders from middle and west tennessee are still mad about him to this day

Presumably taken in Knoxville. Supposedly, when the qst Tennessee Cavalry arrived in the city, Parson brownlow ran behind the regiment cheering it. He also regularly preached to soldiers in both Knoxville and Nashville from 1863 and on, and his sermons apparently were popular. ​

Born in Knoxville on May the 22nd of 1847, he enlisted in the 3rd Tennessee at some point in 1863, shortly after the regiment was officially mustered in (they had flught at Stonws River before then).

At the battle of Sulpher Creek on September 25th of 1864, he was knocked off his horse, trampled by another horse, which broke his leg and cracked a rib, and was captured along with​ the majority of his regiment by Major General Forrest. He was sent to Cahabwa Prison in Alabama. He was eventually paroled in April of 1865, missing the Battle of Nashville.

He, along with 260 others from his regiment, was abord the Sultana when it Exploded, and was among the survivors. He was one of only two Tennessee survivors of the explosion when he died on July 1st, 1929, aged 82. He worked as a Stonemason the rest of his life.