Shotwell, Nathan.

Nathan Shotwell was a Presbyterian minister who held pulpits in antebellum Virginia and North Carolina and in Tennessee after the Civil War. His son was Randolph Abbott Shotwell.

Randolph Abbott Shotwell (1844-1885) was a Confederate officer, North Carolina editor, and politician prominent on the conservative side of Reconstruction. After the Civil War he became a member of the Ku Klux Klan and in 1871 was imprisoned in connection with Klan activities. He was subsequently pardoned by Ulysses S. Grant and returned to politics.

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