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ALS. On letterhead of the Military Order, Loyal Legion, United States, Head-Quarters, Commandery of the State of Massachusetts. Conveys to Brownlow an order adopted at the state meeting that Lt. Colonel John B. Brownlow's resignation be accepted.

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D; Knoxville. Signed by John Bell Brownlow and W. R. Cooper. Brownlow's expense account as Treasury agent. Among the numerous items included is $14 for ammunition used on a raid.

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ALS. On the letterhead of the Treasury Department. Letter dismissing Brownlow as a Treasury agent.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Says that he has received a letter requesting his resignation but wonders why he is so being asked. Says that he always thought his conduct was satisfactory and had so been informed by former congressman J. M. Thornburgh. States that no one can accuse him of corruption or neglect. Says that he has conducted his official duty without fear or favor... Claims to know of no reason why he should be discharged. States that he has not resigned and has come to Washington to...

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ALS. On letterhead of the Treasury Department, Office of Internal Revenue. Notification that effective as of May 12th Brownlow was fired as an Internal Revenue Agent.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Says that the death of his father and the replacement of Thornburgh by Houk as local congressman, he has been fired without adequate explanation from his job with the Internal Revenue Service. Asserts that Raum gives different people different explanations for firing him. Says that he suspects that the real reason was to find a place for one more of that numerous band of carpetbaggers, in whose interest the Unionists of the South, have so long been compelled to stand...

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ALS. On the letterhead of the Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary. Official recognition of Brownlow's letter of resignation, dated the 13th, effective the 15th.

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ALS. Notice to Brownlow that he has been appointed a clerk class two, in the Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General... Gives salary. With envelope.

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D; Washington. Official notification to Brownlow that he has been promoted to a class three clerk. Gives salary.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Asks Henry, who was a special policeman in Washington, whether or not he had on June 18th arrested Leonidas Houk for public drunkenness. Asks whether or not, if he was unfamiliar with Houk, did he arrest anyone on the 16th for drunkenness, whom he turned over to Lieutenant J. E. Boteler and subsequently learned was Houk. Ask further questions, such as if the person arrested gave the name L. Campbell. On the back of the second page, in pencil: Will you...

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Expresses thanks that Brownlow responded so promptly to their request. Says that he was sorry that the illness of his son, Overton, prevented him from being at the society for the presentation of the portrait of the Parson because in presenting the portrait, Lea had planned on speaking favorably about his character, ...who in an age of corruption lived without a stain upon his private character -- a man who had, as the French say the courage of his opinions and would...

Scope and Contents Note ALS. From John Bell Brownlow. An extended letter of complaint in regard to the misrepresentations about his father contained in a serial the newspaper published entitled A Boy Spy in Dixie. Denounces the Craig family, on whom the author appears to have relied. ...the only member of the family who was loyal was the old man Craig himself, who was as loyal as in infirm old may could be with his disloyal surroundings...The only son of his family was...

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D; Washington. Signed by E. C. McSure. Official notification that Brownlow is being reduced in rank to a grade two clerk in the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. Gives salary. With envelope.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Refers to a discussion that Bate had recently had with the Second Assistant Postmaster General in regard to Brownlow's reduction. States that he thinks that the 2nd Asst. Post. Gen. has him confused with another clerk who had been forced to resign due to bad handwriting. Says that at the same time he had been reduced the 2nd Asst. Post. Gen. had other clerks promoted whose handwriting was worse than his. States that when Mr. Knott replaced Brownlow's former boss as 2nd Asst. Post. Gen.,...

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Discusses his appointment to the Post Office and how his promotion had been opposed by the Congressman from his district (Houk). Discusses his reduction. States that Senator Isham Harris, who had interceded on his behalf with the 2nd Asst. Post. Gen., had been told that there had been no complaints about the quality of his work, but that the work he had been doing was that of a clerk of the class to which he reduced me. Says that due to a recent resignation the...

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Says that he examined the arrest docket and saw that a L. Campbell was arrested for drunkenness and was told by officers present that this was L. C. Houk, who had loudly Proclaimed...he would have them all dismissed for arresting a congressman. Describes Lt. Colonel George B. Corkhill, a district attorney and Houk's friend, as a fit companion for Houk...one of them has not been drunk for years past, that the other has not an ...

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Says that going through some old material that he has run across several letter from Parson Brownlow. Mentions how Parson Brownlow had helped him to get an attorney generalship. Says that he and the Parson, despite differing on the Civil War, had been close friends and how he visits the Parson's grave in Old Gray Cemetery. Says that John's mother said that he was going to write a biography of his father. States that his hope is to live long enough to see it. Offers to help in whatever...

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ALS. Answers Brownlow's inquiry as to the liability of H. C. Warmoth, Silas Weeks, Pearl Wright, and Thomas Woodward to the Collector of New Orleans. Describes the financial circumstances of Ex-Governor Warmoth and the rest. With envelope.

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ALS. Requests copy of Parson Brownlow's Farewell Address. Asks John to see Mrs. Hicks. Mentions visitors, great admirers of Parson Brownlow, who have ordered an enlarged copy of his picture. They stayed at the Imperial Hotel and could see the Fouche Building across the street and Fouche had been the wife's maiden name. They were on their way to Los Angeles. With envelope.

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ALS. Requests Brownlow's support in his attempt to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Describes his activities in the Civil War in East Tennessee. Attached are three certified affidavits supporting his claim. Also, a document, undated: 2 copies of a partially filled out affidavit to grant to James S. Fain, a Captain in the D Company of the 9th Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteer Calvary the Congressional Medal of Honor.