The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run

Ellis relates the story of the Memphis Daily Appeal, the mobile newspaper that rallied Southern civilians and soldiers during the Civil War, and eluded capture by Yankee generals who chased the Appeal's portable printing operation across four states. The study also serves as a biography of the newspaper's owner John Reid McClanahan and staff members America Carolina Dill and Benjamin Franklin Dill. The book was nominated for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History. Ellis is a specialist in Confederate journalism, and a former journalism professor from McNeese State U. and Oregon State U. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR