Peter Turney

Peter Turney was a Civil War Confederate Officer and a Governor of Tennessee. After the outbreak of the Civil War he raised the first Tennessee Infantry Regiment in 1861, and became its Colonel and commander. After the war he was elected to the Tennessee Supreme Court. In 1853 he left the bench to serve as Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1893 to 1897. Upon retirement he returned to Winchester ,TN. Peter Turney had a brother named Joe Turner/Turney who was known as being notorious. Joe Turner/Turney ignored the law after slavery was abolished and illegally impressed African American men into forced labor on his plantation. Please see comments for more.........