The moving Appeal
Subtitle: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's great newspaper run
By: by B.G. Ellis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Macon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 677
Subjects: McClanahan, John Reid, ca. 1819-1865; Dill, America Carolina; Dill, Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1816-1866; Memphis daily appeal
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [608]-633) and index.