Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers : Together with ""Taking the Census"" and Other Alabama Sketches
Will be published approx. on 30. September 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
201 pages
978-0-8173-0706-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs" is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-0706-6 (9780817307066)
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Johnson Jones Hooper
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches
E-Book
01/2015
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€76.99
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Person
Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862), Alabama's most celebrated antebellum author, was a lawyer and newspaperman, and at the time of his death, was Secretary of the Confederate Congress. His other works include Dog and Gun (1856), reprinted by The University of Alabama Press in 1992.
Johanna Nicol Shields is professor emerita of History at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.