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Georgia Battalion, composed of Fortieth, Forty-First and Forty-third Georgia (consolidated), Lieut .- Col. W. H. Dunnall; Forty-second Georgia, composed of ten companies of Forty-second Georgia, ten com- panies of Thirty-sixth Georgia, two companies of Fifty-sixth Georgia and one company of Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth Georgia, Lieut .- Col. L. P. Thomas. Pettus' Brigade: Nineteenth Alabama, Lieut .- Col. E. S. Gulley; Twentieth Alabama, Lieut .- Col. J. K. Elliott (belonged to Thir- tieth Alabama ) ; Twenty-third Alabama, Maj. J. T. Hester; Fifty-fourth Virginia Battalion, Lieut .- Col. C. H. Lynch.
Stewart's Artillery Corps.
R. B. Rhett's Battalion; Anderson's Battery, Capt. R. W. ( ?) Ander- son; Brook's Battery (probably Terrel Artillery ) ; Le Gardeurs' Battery, Capt. G. Le Gardeur; Parker's Battery, Capt. Ed L. Parker; Stuart's Battery, Capt. H. M. Stuart; Wheaton's Battery, Capt. J. F. Wheaton. Lee's Corps: Kanapaux's Battery, Capt. J. T. Kanapaux.
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TENNESSEE LITERATURE-A CATALOGUE OF THE LEADING LITERARY MEN AND WOMEN OF THE STATE, WITH THE TITLES OF THEIR PRODUCTIONS, AND WITH ANALYTICAL REVIEWS OF STYLES, METHODS AND GENERAL MERITS; TO- GETHER WITH A COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION OF THE ORIGIN, SUCCESS AND VARIATION OF THE STATE PRESS. 4
T THE activities of the pioneer intellect at the period of the earliest settlement of Tennessee were engrossed in what was of more im- mediate importance than the writing of history. Prior thereto a glimpse of the people and of the physical geography of the mountainous section of the State may be had in a rare and valuable old book published in London in 1775, "Adair's History of the American Indians." Adair, as an Indian trader, was among the Cherokees of East Tennessee a long time before the French and Indian War, when the fierce and haughty Cherokee warriors ruled the land "untrammeled and alone." A map accompanying the volume calls the Tennessee River the Tanase. The men of action-the heroes who planted the white race in this hot-bed of aboriginal hostility, in the latter part of the eighteenth and the earlier part of the nineteenth century, were too much engrossed by the sword to find much time for the pen.
1 The list of Tennessee authors found in works devoted to that subject
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is not so large as that of other Southern States. It has been said, "The- fame of a great man needs time to give it perspective." This is essen- tially true of authors, and it remains for the future biographer, after time has done its work in giving due perspective to the great minds of our State, to do justice to the merits and works of Tennessee's eminent literary laborers. Among writers historians may well be mentioned first. Judge John Haywood is earliest on the list. The, son of a farmer of Halifax County, N. C., he had no opportunity for collegiate education, but learned some Latin and Greek and studied law, beginning with the study of "Reynolds' Reports," thence advancing from particulars to gen- eral principles. He became attorney-general of North Carolina in 1794, and soon afterward judge of the superior court of law and equity. In 1800 he returned to legal practice. Judge Haywood removed to Tennes- see in 1807, and located seven miles south of Nashville. He was fond of applause; became judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee in 1816. Mr. Hiram Barry (the oldest printer in the State), who was personally acquainted with Judge Haywood, says, "He was of low stature and very cor -. pulent." He wrote a very difficult hand to read, and Mr. Barry who set. the type in the printing of "Haywood's History," was the only printer who could decipher it. Judge Haywood was author of "Natural and Abo- riginal History of Tennessee," "History of Tennessee from 1770 to 1795," "The Evidences of Christianity." " Haywood's History" is written in narrative style without rhetorical ornament, and it is not always as clear as the relation of historic events ought to be. It contains a mass of val- uable materials relative to early .events and it is now a rare book. The mistake is made of locating Fort Loudon on the north side of the Little Tennessee. It was situated on the south side of that stream .*
Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey was of Scotch descent. His father was a gal- lant soldier of the Revolutionary war, fighting under Gen. Washington at Valley Forge, Trenton and Princeton. Dr. Ramsey was born in Knox County, six miles east of Knoxville, in 1797, and died in that place in 1884, in his eighty-eighth year. He lies buried at Mecklenburg, four miles east of Knoxville, at the confluence of the Tennessee and French. Broad Rivers. He read medicine under Dr. Joseph Strong, was gradu- ated in the University of Pennsylvania, and was a practitioner most of his life. In the late war, being an ardent secessionist, he was compelled to leave the State during Federal occupation in 1863-65. He went to North Carolina and remained there some years. In 1853 he brought out his "Annals of Tennessee," a valuable compend of history up to the close of the eighteenth century. He had the manuscripts of the second volume
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ready for the printer, but tho family residence, while he was in exile, was burnt, and with it the manuscripts and many valuable papers. Dr. . Ramsey ranks high as an author. He was a polished and fluent writer, and possessed a large fund of information on all subjects. "Annals of Tennessee" is a store-house of knowledge to the future historian. It evinces much research and is very accurate and reliable. He was also the author of many elegant addresses, essays and poems. For some years he was president of the Historical Society of Tennessee.
A. Waldo Putnam published in Nashville, in 1859, Putnam's " His- tory of Middle Tennessee, or Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson." It appears from the title page that Mr. Putnam was president of the Tennessee Historical Society. He was born in Belfast, Ohio, in 1799, and was graduated at the University of Ohio. He wrote the sketch of Gen. John Sevier in "Wheeler's History of North Carolina," and a volume entitled " Life and Times of John Sevier." Mr. Putnam married a de- scendant of Gen. Sevier. The preface to " History of Middle Tennes- see " is pleasing and somewhat fanciful. The work is a comprehensive account of the settlement of the Cumberland Valley, and abounds in the incidents and dangers that follow life in the wilderness. In addition to the historical works mentioned is Clayton's " History of Davidson Coun- ty, Tennessee," an important and valuable work, giving much detailed and statistical information.
" Military Annals of Tennessee " is the title of an octavo volume con- taining 882 pages of closely printed matter, recently issued under the supervision of Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley. The first thirty pages are de- voted to a brief sketch of the war in Tennessee, by J. M. Keating, of Memphis. This is followed by a sketch of the Army of Tennessee, by Alexander P. Stewart, of Oxford, Miss. The remainder of the work is given to histories of the various Confederate regiments, written by some member familiar with their movements. The book is magnificently il- lustrated with portraits of many leading Confederates of Tennessee.
As early as 1834 Eastin Morris brought out "Tennessee Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary " of the State of Tennessee. It is a valu- able compendium of the history of the State, from earliest times to 1834, including the constitution of Tennessee framed by the convention of 1834. A second edition of this book was published in Nashville, ac- companied by ample foot notes.
Paschall is the author of "Old Times, or Tennessee History," a work for schools. Knowing the love children have for "story-reading," Pas- chall has arranged historic facts in a most agreeable form. Each chap- ter, as far as possible, has a beginning and ending, and by this means
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each fragment of history becomes a unit and fastens firmly in the mind of the juvenile reader. Mr. Paschall was an old school-teacher, and his excellent little book is the result of long experience in the best methods of enlisting interest in young people for grave study. Another book much valued is "Life as it is, or Matters and Things in General," pub- lished in Knoxville in 1844, by J. W. M. Brazeale. This book has many historic facts and comments on the customs of the early settlers of Ten- nessee. There is a good article on the battle of King's Mountain, and an account of the "Harps," two noted murderers who, without being robbers, went about the county committing atrocious murders, appar- ently as a pleasure. No doubt, De Quincy-like, they considered murder "one of the fine arts." Brazeale was a native of Roane County, and practiced law in Athens, Tenn.
Mr. Wilkins Tannehill is the author of "History of Literature," "Man- ual of Freemasonry" and several other works of ability. He was a dis- tinguished light in the Masonic fraternity, and is said to have been a forci- ble and fluent writer. Clark's "Miscellany of Prose and Poetry" is some- thing in the line of English literature.
" Jack Robinson" is the author of "The Savage," a book of pungent essays, criticising the life and usages of the civilized man, in contrast with those of the aboriginal savage. It purports to be written by " Pio- mingo, a chief of the Muscogulgee nation," published in Knoxville in 1833. The author was a Tennesseean, born probably in Carter County. where he committed a homicide early in life; whence his after life was poisoned by remorse. He is said to have lived a veritable hermit's life, in which existence these essays were written. Robinson is accredited with the authorship of a forcible poem in the same solemn vein as Gray's Elegy, but any certain facts of his career seem lost.
Prior to 1804 Willie Blount's "Catechetical Exposition of the Con- stitution of the State of Tennessee" was published. This is a work for the use of schools written in conversational style. Abijah Fowler of Washington County, in 1838, brought out "Fowler's Arithmetic," a text- book of much popularity in this region at that period. "Biblical Nom- enclature or Vocabulary of the Principal Part of the Proper Names Con- tained in the Bible, with their Signification, together with Scriptural Tables of-Money, Weights and Measures, to which is added President Washington's Valedictory Address, Intended for the Use of Schools; by John Wilkinson. Heiskell .& Brown, printers, Knoxville, Tenn., 1820." The book is recommended as one "of ability, judgment and care," and persons are urged to patronize it, by Isaac Anderson, John McCamp- bell, Robert Hardin. August, 1819.
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Clerical writers are numerous. One of the most fluent and prolific is Rev. David Rice MeAnally, D. D., of the Methodist Church, South; a native of Grainger County, born in 1810, and for some years a resident of Knoxville. He was president of the East Tennessee Female Institute in Knoxville for eight years. He removed to St. Louis in 1851, where he still edits the St. Louis Christian Advocate. He is a man of exten- sive reading and great charity of mind; is remarkable for clearness and vigor of style, and is perfectly fearless in advocating his convictions of right. He does not mince matters, but calls things by their right names and is bold in denouncing vice, while he is liberal and kind to all. His works are " Martha Laurens Ramsey," a biography of a lady of South Carolina; " Life and Times of Rev. William Patton;" "Life and Times of Rev. Samuel Patton, D. D .; " " A Hymn Book;" " A Sunday-school Manual;" " Annals of the Holston Conference."
Rev. J. B. McFerrin, D. D., the head of the Methodist Publishing House at Nashville, is the author of a learned and important work, "His- tory of Methodism in Tennessee," published at Nashville in 1872 in three volumes. He was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., June 15, 1807; entered the ministry at eighteen and has filled many prominent positions in the Methodist Church ever since. His name is identified with the history of the church, and he has shared in its " deliberative assemblies, and pursued his life-work with a concentration of purpose seldom equaled." He ranks as a man of the rarest courage which is stimulated and increased when surrounded by difficulties, and he is never found wanting in any emergency. As an orator he possessed wit, humor, pa- thos, and his sermons "engage attention, command confidence and awaken conscience."
Among early clerical writers was Rev. Abel Pearson, author of " An Analysis of the Principles of Divine Government," in a series of con- versations, and also " Conversations on Some Other Interesting Subjects, Particularly Relating to Same Principals, Between A. P. and N. P .; and a Dissertation on the Prophecies in Reference to the Rise and Fall of the Beast; The Cleansing of the Sanctuary; The Beginning and Dura- tion of the Millennium, and the Little Season; together with a Calcula- tion Shewing the Exact Time of the Death of Christ; and, also, Calcu- lations Shewing the Precise Time of the Rise and Fall of the Beast and the Beginning of the Millennium, etc. ; by Abel Pearson, Minister of the Gospel, Athens, Tenn., 1833." The whole title of the book is given as a specimen of prolixity.
Rev. David Nelson, a man of fine attainments, published " The Cause and Cure of Infidelity." He married in Tennessee and resided in the
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State many years. Rev. Robert A. Young, D. D., a native of Knox County; is the author of a book called " Reply to Ariel," written in answer to "Ariel," by J. B. Payne, and of "Personages." Dr. Young re- sides in Nashville, and is a prominent divine in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. "Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church," is the production of Rev. Richard Baird, published in Nashville in 1867. Rev. W. T. Helms, an Episcopal clergyman, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., wrote a poem of twelve books, entitled "Moses Resisted." Two poems, "Smith and Pocahontas," " Centennial Poem," are the work of Rev. Joseph H. Martin, D. D .; Dr. Martin is a native of Dandridge, is a man of fine cult- ivation, and has written many popular hymns. Rev. Robert Mack, in 1834, published " Kyle Stuart, with other Poems," a remarkable book; and " The Moriad," another poem. Bishop H. N. McTyeire is the author of a little work called "Duties of Christian Masters," published in Nash- ville in 1859, and " History of Methodism" and " A Catechism of Church Government." He has been a constant writer for the press and was at one time editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate. R. H. Rivers, D. D., wrote two valuable text books, "Mental Philosophy" and " Moral i Philosophy." Father Ryan, author of the inimitable wail "The Con- quered Banner," was for a long time a resident of Knoxville, and Ten- nesseeans feel proud of his genius, although he is not a native of the State.
ยท Rev. William G. Brownlow, governor of Tennessee, wrote quite a number of books. His first publication was " Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism;" 1834. It is theological and controversial, and con- tains an autobiographical sketch. In 1844 he published "Life of Henry Clay and Political Register." This was followed by "The Great Iron Wheel Examined." In 1858 appeared "Debate between W. G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne," and in 1862 ."Parson Brownlow's Own Book," an account of his maltreatment by the hated secessionists. Mr. Brownlow led a life of incessant activity as editor, politician and preacher. "He was," says a critic, "extreme in all things." In pri- vate life he was kind, charitable and helpful; was successively governor of Tennessee and Senator of the United States.
Rev. Frederick A. Ross, D. D., a resident of this State for many years, was the author of "Slavery Ordained by God," published in 1857. Dr. Ross was a most accomplished scholar and a man of genius. He lived to a very great age and was an eminent divine.
Medical writers were Dr. Isaac Wright, author of " Wright's Family Medicine, or System of Domestic Practice," and Dr. John C. Gunn,
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author of " Gunn's Domestic Medicine," published in Knoxville in 1830. The essays on the passions in this book were written by a remarkable man named Charles Cassedy. Cassedy was said to be the " Milford Bard " in "Field's Scrap Book." Dr. Thomas A. Anderson wrote the " Practical Monitor, for the Preservation of Health and the Prevention of Disease." He considered blood-letting a cure for all diseases. He was a native of East Tennessee, and was a man of learning.
Authors of works on geology are James M. Safford, A. M., author of " Geology of Tennessee," published by the State at Nashville in 1869. This work was received by scientists and the general public with great favor. Dr. Safford and J. B. Killebrew, brought out a " School Geology of Tennessee," chiefly compiled from the foregoing. J. B. Killebrew published in Nashville a valuable volume entitled " Resources of Ten- nessee." William G. McAdoo is author of an "Elementary Geology of Tennessee," a briefer and simpler work than the preceding, adapted to less advanced pupils.
Hon. T. A. R. Nelson is author of "East Tennessee," and "Seces- sion," and another very vigorous poem, a satire in the Hudibrastic style, an account of the canvass of the Legislature for the office of United States Senator, entitled " King Caucus." Mr. Nelson was a man of large talent, enriched by varied cultivation. He held many important offices, and was on the defense in the impeachment trial of President Johnson in 1868. He was a native of Roane County, born in 1812, and died of cholera in 1872 being then a judge of the supreme court.
"Life of Capt. William B. Allen," was from the pen of Hon. A. O. P. Nicholson, a very able jurist. A contemporary says, "His writings are characterized by a style so lucid, and argumentation so logical as to entitle him to rank among the masters of model English." " A Ten- nesseean Abroad" is the work of Maj. Randall W. McGavock, in 1856. He was a gallant soldier and fell on the Confederate side. "The World's Wonder," a Masonic exposition, was the work of Johnson and Henderson. Capt. James Williams was author of " Old Line Whig Let- ters," which appeared in the Nashville Union, in 1846. Tennessee claims as one of her sons the distinguished author, Matthew Fontaine Maury. Commodore Maury's works and labors in the cause of science are so well known they need not be mentioned here.
The famous hunter and humorist, Col. David Crockett, is credited with the authorship of several works: "Exploits in Texas, " " Tour Down East," "Autobiography," "Sketches and Eccentricities" and "Song Book." It is strange that this self-made and eccentric celeb- rity, who never had but two months' instruction in reading and writing,
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should have produced by the native force of intellect so many readable books. Doubtless the notoriety he acquired by his singular manner, and his odd turns of expression aided in the success of his productions.
Hon. Joseph C. Guild was the author of "Old Times in Tennessee." The works of J. R. Graves are "The Desire of all Nations," "The Watch- man's Reply," "The Trilemma," "The First Baptist Church in Ameri- ca," "The Little Iron Wheel," "The Bible Doctrine of the Middle Life," "The Great Iron Wheel," "Exposition of Modern Spiritualism," "The New Hymn and Tune Book," "The Little Seraph," "Old Land- markism; What it is." Mr. Graves is a native of Chester, Vt., born April 10, 1820. His father died when the child was three weeks old. He was converted at the age of fifteen, and made principal of Keysville (Ohio) Academy when nineteen; came to Nashville in 1845, where he taught school, had charge of a church and became the editor of The Tennessee Baptist, and still continues in that position.
"Woodville" is a novel of East Tennessee life, published in Knox- ville. Many of the characters are supposed to have been taken from real life, and some of the scenes are laid at Montvale Springs. Mr. Todd, a theological student at Maryville many years ago, is said to be the author. Abram Caruthers wrote a text-book entitled "History of a Lawsuit." Dr. P. O. Fitzgerald is the author of "Life of Dr. T. O. Summers," "Glimpses of Truth" and "Centenary Cameos." He is a native of North Carolina.
Rev. W. P. Harrison, editor of the Southern Methodist Review, has published "Theophilus Walton," a reply to "Theodosia Ernest," 1858; "Lights and Shadows of Fifty Years," published under the nom de plume Henry Hartwell, in 1883. (This is a book of short sketches from real life. ) "The Living Christ," 1884; " The High Churchman Dis- armed," in 1886. Mr. Harrison has been connected with the Methodist Publishing House since 1882, and in that time has edited over 100 books.
"Biographical Sketches " of Tennessee Baptists, by Rev. Joseph H. Borim, was published in 1880. It is a very flattering account of Baptist ministers, both past and present, who have labored in Tennessee, and is written in the form of sketches. Dr. A. H. Redford wrote "History of Methodism in Kentucky," " Western Cavaliers," "Fred Brennam," "Rus- sell Morton," "A Preacher's Wife." The last three are religious novels.
Rev. Philip Lindsley, D. D., was born in New Jersey, in 1786; be- came a preacher in the Presbyterian Church and rose to such eminence that, in 1834, he was chosen unanimously moderator of the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, then holding its sessions at Philadelphia. He occupied distinguished positions, many of .
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: them thrust upon him without solicitation. In 1825 he was inaugurated . president of Dickenson College, Nashville, Tenn. The name of this in- stitution was changed the next year to the University of Nashville. He was among the very foremost men of his day in the work of higher ed- ucation. He was much esteemed by the public as a man of great genius, . and his work in the educational department was nobly executed and pro- ductive of beneficial results. His publications were chiefly in the form . of addresses on education. They were published in three large volumes, with a memoir, by Le Roy J. Halsey, D. D.
Samuel D. Baldwin is the author of "Armageddon, or the Overthrow . of Romanism and Monarchy," and "Life of Mrs. Sarah Norton." Thomas O. Summers, D. D., editor of Nashville Christian Advocate, is author of a number of works: "Baptism," "Golden Censer," "Holi- ness,"' "Refutation of Payne," "Seasons, Months and Days," "Sunday- school Teacher," "Sunday-school Speaker," "Talks Pleasant and Profit- able," "Scripture Catechism."
W. M. Baskerville, professor of English language and literature in Vanderbilt University, published first a piece of Anglo-Saxon prose for , his doctor's degree at the University of Leipsic. This was followed by an "Anglo-Saxon Poem" in 1885. Mr. Baskerville then brought out a joint work with Prof. James A. Harrison, an "Anglo-Saxon Dictionary," . also published in 1885. Mr. Baskerville was born in Fayette County, Tenn., April 1, 1850. After attending several prominent institutions .of learning in the United States he went to the University of Leipsic, where he received the degree of Ph. D.
"Early Times in Middle Tennessee," by John Carr, was published in 1857. The preface is written by Dr. J. B. McFerrin. The book con- tains a series of sketches on the history of Middle Tennessee, which were first published in the Nashville Christian Advocate. Much of the book is given to early religious history, and it contains biographies of pioneer preachers and one of the author.
"Life and Times of Elder Reuben Ross," an interesting and well written book, by James Ross, with an introduction and notes by J. M. Pendleton, was published 1882. Elder Ross was born in North Carolina, in 1776. He came to Tennessee in 1807, after having been ordained to the ministry, and for fifty years was a noted preacher. The history of his life covers one of the most important periods in the religious history of the State.
J. H. Brunner, D. D., president of Hiwassee College, has published "Sunday Evening Talks" and "The Union of the Churches." The Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald, editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, is the .
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