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Description: "Come on, Sirs, and take it down!" A depiction of Susan Brownlow, daughter of pro-Union newspaper editor William G. Brownlow, fending off Confederate soldiers who had threatened to take down the American flag flying over the Brownlows' house on East Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1861.
Title: Egan-susan-brownlow-defends-flag
Credit: Michael Egan, The Flying, Gray-Haired Yank (Edgewood Publishing Company, 1888), p. 352. Downloaded from Google Books, Full View.
Author: Unsigned engraving
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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