| Abstract | File containing an illustration and biographical article about Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, or Nathaniel Tucker (1784-1851), writer of "The Partisan Leader, a Tale of the Future," an 1836 book "predict[ing] the formation of the Southern Confederacy 25 years before the Civil war." Native of Virginia moving to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1815 as a lawyer and writing his book in the early 1830s, later "used by the North after the war broke out to show that Southerners long had planned to secede." |
