Title: The moving Appeal : Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's great newspaper run /
Authors: Ellis, Barbara G.
Publisher: Mercer University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: McClanahan, John Reid,; Dill, America Carolina.; Dill, Benjamin Franklin,; Memphis daily appeal.
Abstract: "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.
Contents: He that dies does not necessarily pay all debts -- Peasant rogues still Beget peasant rogues -- The harp carried by an orphan boy -- His sword was girded on and his harp slung behind him -- On dealing with fires, firebrands, high finance, and the dills fiddling with the books -- Battling the gnats and the tigers -- 'Misfortune can no more be hidden than the sunlight' -- Granada is 'a pretty little town...' for a military depot -- Jackson: the window on Vicksburg -- Jackson falls: 'we shall remain at our post until all hope is gone' -- Atlanta: 'reaching the public in all the south' -- Waiting for the 'ball to open' -- The last daily newspaper in Atlanta -- Montgomery: testing the dauntless spirit and the stout heart -- Neither murder most foul nor 'drowning in tears' made an 'interruption in the publication of the appeal' -- The 'false...and fraudulent attempt by Mrs. Dill to appropriate...the whole of that large and valuable property, The Memphis Appeal'.