Taliaferro, Harden E.

Taliaferro, Harden E.( 1818–75),
Baptist minister and editor in North Carolina and Alabama, known for his volume of Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters (1859), describing the Old Southwest frontier on which he grew up, in the manner of Longstreet's Georgia Scenes. A second series of sketches, contributed under the pseudonym Skitt to the Southern Literary Messenger between 1860 and 1863, was issued in book form as Carolina Humor (1938).