CHIPLEY — Zachary Taylor Wood was sentenced to death in a historic decision Tuesday. Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson announced the sentence for Wood’s part in the ...

Born in Virginia, raised in Kentucky, with a home in Louisiana and a plantation in Mississippi, Zachary Taylor lived the nomadic life of a career soldier, never casting a vote. Although a slave ...

A Mexican-American War hero, Zachary Taylor made it to the White House without being elected to any previous public office. Taylor earned the nickname “Old Rough and Ready” because he was ...