John A. Quitman
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John Anthony Quitman was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. As president of the Mississippi Senate, he was the acting governor of Mississippi for one month as a Whig. He was elected governor
Photograph by Mathew Brady
Milk house and servants' house at Monmouth, Natchez, Mississippi
Dickeson illustration of mounds in situ
Monmouth, from The memento, old and new Natchez, 1700 to 1897
Fire-Eaters
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In American history, the Fire-Eaters were a loosely aligned group of radical pro-secession Democrats in the antebellum South who urged the separation of the slave states into a new nation, in which ch
John A. Quitman
…1850, until his resignation on February 3, 1851, shortly after his arrest for violating U.S. neutrality laws. He was strongly pro-slavery and a leading Fire-Eater. According to Quitman's first biographer, John F. H. Claiborne, writing in 1860, "A more ambitious man never lived. ...He was greedy for military fame…
William Lowndes Yancey.