 Nana's son, William Alexander Percy, became a famed Confederate colonel and was a railroad lawyer after the war.LeRoy Percy (1860–1929), the son of William Alexander Percy, served as a US senator and confronted the Ku Klux Klan in Washington County in 1922, thwarting their recruiting effort.LeRoy Percy was the father of William Alexander Percy, a World War I hero, lawyer, poet and memoirist, best known for "Lanterns on the Levee