Background
Merrill, Cassius Exum was born on October 7, 1838 in opposite Boonesboro, Clarke Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of James William Simpson and Sophia Holder (Hieronymus) Merrill.
Merrill, Cassius Exum was born on October 7, 1838 in opposite Boonesboro, Clarke Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of James William Simpson and Sophia Holder (Hieronymus) Merrill.
Bachelor of Arts, Kentucky Military Institute (now at Lyndon, Kentucky), 1859, Master of Arts, 1871.
Frankfort, Kentucky, August 22, 1861. Private 22d Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A., 1861-1862. First lieutenant and drillmaster Company F, 49th Alabama Infantry, 1862.
Adjunct 49th Alabama and later adjutant general, Thomas M. Scott’s brigade.
Promoted major on field for gallantry. Twice wounded. Practiced law at Carrollton, Mississippi, 1866-1872.
City editor Louisville Courier-Journal, 1872-1882. Editor The World, Nashville, Tennessee, 1883-1885, Jacksonville (Florida) News Herald and Florida Times-Union, from 1885.
Author (pamphlets) Ole Mose-Jefferson Davis, The Centaurs of the Seas for South, and contributor to newspapers and magazines
Member Delta Kappa Epsilon. Mason, Red Manitoba.
Married Anna Minerva Exham, of near.