Remembering Suwannee: Judge John Fletcher White, Part 4

Eric Musgrove Contributor Three weeks ago, we began looking at the life of John Fletcher White, a prominent Suwannee County judge of the late 1800s. White was born in Tennessee, served during the Mexican-American War, was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, became a lawyer and judge, and fought in the War Between the States. He died in 1901, a man cherished by Suwannee County and the surrounding areas. But what else was there to White's past? "And now," as Paul Harvey used to say, "the rest of the story…" Although White served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, he initially served in the Union Army! You see, White was actually a Unionist, a person in the Sou