The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civ...
Ellis, B. G. / Ellis, Barbara G.
The Memphis Daily Appeal rallied civilians and soldiers in the Deep South from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, thanks to its doughty owner John Reid McClanahan and scheming staffers Carolina Dill and Benjamin F. Dill. Their scrappy backgrounds enabled them to exasperate and outwit generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and James H. Wilson who chased them across four states, yet never could silence the "Voice of the Confederacy." That took M...