Journalists

Samuel Medary was an influential politician and newspaperman, who supported State's Rights and opposed the Abolition of slavery. During the Civil War, he published the anti-war newspaper, The Crisis. Medary also served as Governor of the Minnesota Territory and as Governor of the Kansas Territory.

Tennessee native Felix Zollicoffer was a newspaperman, congressman, and Confederate general who was killed at the Battle of Mill Springs during the Civil War. He is most well-known for attending the Washington Peace Conference in 1860 and being one of the first Confederate general officers killed during the war.