Henry watterson biography

Henry Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., on February 16, 1840. His distinguished parents were Talitha (sometimes cited as Tabitha) Black Watterson and Harvey McGee Watterson—a lawyer, newspaper editor and U.S.

congressman from Tennessee.

Henry watterson biography

Harvey Watterson succeeded James K. Polk in Congress after Polk was elected president in 1844, and much of his son's childhood was split between Tennessee and the nation's capital. Towards the end of 1858, Henry Watterson began writing for the Daily States newspaper in Washington, but in 1861, he returned to Tennessee and enlisted in the Confederate Army.

Despite his professed misgivings about sectionalism and slavery, Watterson served alternately as both a soldier and a newspaper editor for the Confederacy. He rode briefly with famed Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and edited the Nashville Banner, as well as other Confederate newspapers.

After the war, Watterson wrote editorials calling for national reconciliation and Sout