The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-17
MT. John TrOtWOOd Moore

NAV Ho is there here among 191s, us s. who has town" Toms Last Furage," "A Summer Hymnal," the famous ''Un- cle Wash" stories, The Ballad of Emma who wouldn't love to shake hands and
 talk with the author, John Trotwood Moore, who has given us so much pleas
 ure in these wonderful stories?
 | Scarcely anyone, I should say and none could have been more eager than when heard that MT. Moore was a distinguished visitor to Birmingham yesterday.
 When I met him and looked into his | gentle, patrician face, noted his courtly 1 manner and heard his soft, euphonious | voice 1 wondered no longer at the heart | and hunor and pAthos of his stories-of | the original way in which he presents them-for MT Moore is as unique in
 personality as he is on paper-eyer ready
 to tell humorous story. ever reeady to
 touch the heart of humanity with a bit | of his pathos. ever ready to praise and
 to love and to take into his great big | heart the whole wide world.
 l Tennessee claims John Trotwood Moore l as perhaps it should, since he has lived l in that grand old state for many years 1 but it is to Alabama that this soldier of fortune belongs. because he was [ born and bred in 'the black belt" which he declares has furnished the
 best white folks that ever lived on the
 face of the earth
 His father. who was Judge John Moore l of Marion, for twenty-sx years was one l of Alabama's most eminent iurists, while
 an uncle of Mir. Moore, Andrew B. | Moore, was governor of Alabama back l wonder in those days when Alabama was l lt,1a L iro al,t It. | world.
 Tall and slender as boy in his twen-
 ties, his heart and mind as young as a | deDutantes, Mir. John Trotwood Moore makes a distinguished appearance and | as soon as I had shaken hands with i him and told him how much I love "The Bishop of Cottontown" even before he told me that at present he holds the in- teresting position of Custodian of the Archives of the state of Tennessee" he said:
 ] ''The first thing that did when I got to Birmingham was to call on my good friend, Cen. Edward w. Fucker. I have always been great admirer of General Fucker, and as the hight-hand man of General Forrest he has been doubly in- teresting to me. l might say that these
 two great men have constituted one of the hobbies of my life.''
 | T always love to talk about recon Istruction days with General Fucker, for those were the days in which I first made his acquaintance,' said Mir. Moore, 'and it was a genuine pleasure to me to tell the general yesterday of a most Interesting volume that l have recently found in my arehve work This volume contains the entire casualty list, every soldier wounded. missing or killed in General Forests entire war record. It is one of our most valuable contribu- tons to war records. It shows how falr- | ly General Forrest lost at the battles Of Tishimingo Creek, Harrisburg and Selma and his surrender at Gainesville, Ala. It gives a complete list of Gen. eral Fuckers brigade, and shows how his men were the worst cut up of any of those engaged in the very end of the Confederacy battles, for on the 16th and 18th of December, 1864. General Hood raided Tennessee. beginning with the battle of Franklin. driving the Yankees out of Nashville later, where he was completely destroyed by General Scho- field and General Thomas. And let me tell you something; on the old Granny | White pike, five miles from Nashville, 1 where I live, the battle line runs right
 straight through my front yard.