SALE, John Burress was born on June 7, 1818 in Amherst County, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of the eminent clergyman Alexander Sale and his wife Sarah (Burress). His father later moved to Lawrence County, Alabama, where Sale graduated from LaGrange College and was also admitted to the bar in 1837.
Private school, southern university.
He was married four times: to Susan Turner, Nannie T. Mills, Lou Leigh, and Annie Cornelius. His first three wives died in childbirth. Sale practiced law in Moulton, Alabama, in 1839 and was named a probate judge the following year.
He later moved to Aberdeen, Mississippi, where he practiced law from 1845 to 1861. In 1861, he lived in Memphis, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he helped to organize the Tennessee Volunteers and served as lieutenant colonel of the 27th M ississippi Regiment.
He was also Braxton Bragg’s chief of staff and judge advocate general for the Army of Tennessee. He was head of the Bragg bloc and lobbied for the general in Richmond. He also served as Bragg’s emissary to Joseph Johnston in the crucial western campaigns of 1864.
Sale helped Bragg draw up plans for the offensive of 1864. After the war, he returned to Memphis, where he resumed a successful law practice.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
