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First Published:
Sep 2005, 432 pages
Paperback:
Sep 2006, 448 pages
This article relates to The Widow of The South
Robert Hicks
was born and raised in South
Florida. In 1974 he moved to
Tennessee where he now lives in
an eighteenth-century log cabin
near Leiper's Fork. His day job
is music publishing and artist
management but his passion is
collecting - including 18th
century maps of Tennessee,
Tennesseana in general and
Southern decorative arts. He
was the driving force behind,
and co-curator of, the Art of
Tennessee exhibition in
Nashville which opened in
September 2003 and has served on
the boards of a number of
historic preservation groups in
Tennessee, including
Franklin's Charge - a
campaign to preserve the
remaining undeveloped fragment
of the battlefield at Franklin.
He says that he hoped writing
The Widow of The South would
keep Franklin's history — and
that of Carrie McGavock — from
fading, and that it would ensure
that tourists came to Franklin,
supporting the mansion through
the largely untapped vein of
heritage tourism in Williamson
County.
Did you know? One of the
many historical figures to play
a role in The Widow of the
South is Nathan Forrest - a
millionaire slave trader and
plantation owner who enlisted in
the Confederate Army as a
private at the start of the
Civil War and quickly rose
through the ranks, becoming a
brigadier general in 1862.
After the war it is believed
that he helped establish the Ku
Klux Klan and became its first
Grand Wizard in 1867.
Must See Link:
The Widow of the South website
with photos of Carrie McGavock,
her house, maps of the
battlefield etc.
Other Links:
More about
Robert Hicks at BookBrowse.
More about
Carrie McGavock and the Battle
of Franklin.
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Widow of The South. It originally ran in November 2005 and has been updated for the
September 2006 paperback edition.
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