...d, and no measures seemed to be considered too cruel to be employed in crushing them. Among the most prominent of the East Tennessee Loyalists, who suffered persecution, were Andrew Johnson and Horace Maynard , members of Congress, and Rev. W. G. Brownlow, D. D., a Methodist preacher, and editor of the Knoxville Whig. Brownlow's fearless spirit, caustic pen, social position, and public relations through t...