BRAXTON BRAGG UNDERWOOD
Mr. Braxton Bragg Underwood went to church to talk to Atticus before the trial. "Mr. Underwood had no use for any organization but the Maycomb Tribune, of which he was the sole owner, editor, and printer. His days were spent at his linotype, where he refreshed himself occasionally from an ever-present gallon jug of cherry wine. He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said that he made up every edition of The Maycomb Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype. This was believable. Something must have been up to haul Mr. Underwood out." He lived above the Maycomb Tribune office. He despises Negroes, but he covered Atticus with a shot gun when the lynch mob was there. "Local opinion held Mr. Underwood to be an intense, profane little man, whose father in a fey fit of humor christen Braxton Bragg, a name Mr. Underwood had done his best to live down." He was named after a Confederate general.
