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2 unusual facts about James Patton Brownlow


James Patton Brownlow

After a brief expedition to fight Native Americans (Indians) and guerrillas from North Carolina in Cocke County, Tennessee, Colonels Brownlow and Palmer with about one thousand men of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 10th Ohio Cavalry held the army's right wing, watching for arrival of a Confederate force reportedly approaching East Tennessee from North Carolina.

James Patton Brownlow was born on December 14, 1842 in Jonesborough, Tennessee.



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