. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . INTRODUCTION. XI death, August 11, 1869. He was a devout member of the CumberlandPresbyterian church, dispatched business so swiftly while Chancellorthat he was known as the galloping- Chancellor, and because of hisprotection to women when cases appeared in his court in which theywere concerned, he was known as the womans friend. But per-haps the two greatest stones in his monument, if we except his highChristian example, are to be referred to yet. The first was his effort, directly after the war to bring aboutemancipation of the Southern sympa


. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . INTRODUCTION. XI death, August 11, 1869. He was a devout member of the CumberlandPresbyterian church, dispatched business so swiftly while Chancellorthat he was known as the galloping- Chancellor, and because of hisprotection to women when cases appeared in his court in which theywere concerned, he was known as the womans friend. But per-haps the two greatest stones in his monument, if we except his highChristian example, are to be referred to yet. The first was his effort, directly after the war to bring aboutemancipation of the Southern sympathizers of his state, wTho had beendisfranchised. This effort of his reflecting honor alike on his patrot-ism and his legal attainments would undoubtedly have proved successfulhad it not been anticipated by DeWitt C. Senter in the well knowncanvass for the Governorship by that gentleman and William The second was the part he took in founding the Law School ofCumberland University. Will T. Hale:—Judge Ridley was notonly a Christian ge


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