WASHINGTON, March 15.
Parson Brownlow and son arrived here to-day. He says he was imprisoned in the common jail at Knoxville, December 16th, in violation of an agreement with the rebel government. He was confined in a small, damp room, and was attacked by the typhoid fever. He was moved to his resistance and laid up eight weeks under a strict guard, and having partly recovered he got a pass from the rebel government and left Knoxville two weeks ago, but was detained, by order of Gen. Hardee, at Shelbyville, ten days. He reached the federal lines this morning. Brownlow declines starting a paper here on account of ill health. He proceeds North to publish a story of his martyrdom. Brownlow is not affected by consumption, as reported.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862, p. 2
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