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William Pannill

Mr. Pannill, a native of Houston, retired as a lawyer in 2005. He graduated from Rice University in 1962 and the University of Texas School of Law in 1970. He joined a large law firm in Houston. Mr. Pannill practised law for 25 years in his own firm, Pannill, Moser & Barnes. His father, Fitzhugh Hastings Pannill, and grandfather, Judge William Pannill, practised law as well. He also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he worked nights as a copy boy for The New York Times. He was a member of the staff of The Detroit Free Press that won the Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting for coverage of the Detroit riots of 1967.

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Mary Lynn Pannill, my beautiful sister

Prison letters: the Hargroves and a draft

Was Robert E. Lee a traitor?

The Civil War of William Carter Cherry

The National Guard in Detroit

Reporting the Detroit riots, 1967

An 18th-century keepsake

A hundredth-birthday tribute

Starvation rations at Fort Pulaski, Georgia

Uncle Hinkey