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.

From the guide to the Shotwell Family Papers, ., 1829-1930, (bulk 1829-1887), (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)