An edition of The moving Appeal (2003)
The moving Appeal
Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's great newspaper run
By Barbara G. Ellis
Publish Date
2003
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Language
eng
Pages
677
Description:
"This is the story of the Memphis Daily Appeal's great Civil War run before the armies of Yankee generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman and James Wilson. It is also a biography of the newspaper's owner John Reid McClanahan and staff members America Carolina Dill and Benjamin Franklin Dill, the three who made the paper's survival and success possible. Gypsying around four towns in three Deep South states-Grenada and Jackson, Mississippi, Atlanta, and finally Montgomery, Alabama ... The newspaper was issued daily, tr-weekly, and weekly...." -- Introd.