The youngest daughter of a founding patriarch of middle Tennessee, Donelson (1807-36) married her first cousin at age 17 and anticipated the typical life of a plantation mistress. But when her uncle,
Originally published in 1842, John Will M. Breazeale’s Life as It Is is an insightful—and at times chilling—collection of essays on a variety of subjects relating to life in early East Tennessee. Thou
