Governor John Jones Pettus., Ku Klux Klan, Selma, Alabama

Edmund Winston Pettus – A Confederate Brigadier General, KKK Grand Wizard And Former Alabama U.S. Senator

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Photograph of Edmund Winston Pettus during the U.S. Civil War.

Before the state of the U.S. Civil War, Alabamian Edmund Winston Pettus asked his older brother John Jones Pettus, the Governor of Mississippi, to call for the state of Mississippi to leave the Union. Governor John Jones Pettus heeded his brother’s call and lead Mississippi to secede from the Union.

Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus.

When the war began he enlisted in the army and was promoted to the Brigadier General for the Western Confederate Army.

Photograph of Edmund Winston Pettus.

After the war, Edmund Winston Pettus served as a U.S. Senator of Alabama and as a Grand Wizard of the Alabama Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

Author’s Note:

The Edmund Winston Pettus has a bridge named after him in Selma, Alabama over thirty years after his death.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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