...es in its ranks. From Georgia also came (1840), intimate and comic letters by William Tappan Thompson (1812-82), who had an interesting career as editor and soldier in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland , and Georgia. One of the best of early Southern humorists was an Alabama editor, Johnson J. Hooper (1815-62), whose (1846) was admired by Thackeray. Captain Suggs is an amusing rascal, who lives b...