Sketches of Tennessee's pioneer Baptist preachers, being, incidentally, a history of Baptist beginnings in the several associations in the state; containing, particularly, character and life sketches of the standard-bearers and leaders of our people; commencing with the oldest communities of Baptists and covering, substantially but not in detail, a period of one hundred years (1775-1875) of Baptist effort and achievement in Tennessee; with photo illustrations and an appendix of curious documents and bits and fragments of church history