Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
Subtitle: Confederate governor and United States senator
By: Sam Davis Elliott.
Series: Southern biography series
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807134900
Subjects: Harris, Isham G. -- 1818-1897; United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; Governors -- Tennessee -- Biography; Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "From the beginning fairly successful as a lawyer," 1818-1853; title: "My business will be to advocate the principles and platform of democracy," 1854-1860; title: "For the defense of our rights and those of our southern brothers," 1861-1862; title: "I intend to remain until the battle is over," 1862; title: "In this struggle for national independence," 1863; title: "Tennessee, a grave or a free home," 1864-May 1865; title: "Better a penniless exile than to have violated principle," 1865-1867; title: "We of the South have accepted the results in good faith," 1868-1876; title: "Stand by your time-honored principles," 1877-1883; title: "The old man invincible," 1883-1897.