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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wigfall, Louis Trezevant 1816-1874 (search)
Wigfall, Louis Trezevant 1816-1874 Legislator; born in Edgefield district, S. C., April 21, 1816; took a partial course at the College of South Carolina; left to enter the army for the Indian War in Florida; was admitted to the bar; Texan State Senator in 1857-58 and 1859-60; United States Senator from Jan. 4, 1860, till his formal expulsion, July 11, 1861. Commenting on Mr. Lincoln's inaugural address, Senator Wigfall said: It is easy to talk about enforcing the laws and holding, occupying, and possessing the forts. When you come to do this, bayonets, and not words, must settle the question. . . . Fort Pickens and the administration will soon be forced to construe the inaugural. . . .The Confederate States will not leave Fort Sumter in possession of the Federal government. . . . Seven States have formed a confederation, and to tell them, as the President has done, that the acts of secession are no more than blank paper is an insult. . . . There is no Union left. . . . The se
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
Vicksburg surrendered, General Whitfield encountered a party of 500 Federals. He attacked and defeated them at Messinger's ferry. Through the whole of 1864 he commanded a brigade under Forrest, and was in Mississippi when the war closed in 1865. He then returned to Texas, where he subsequently made his home. Brigadier-General Louis Trezevant Wigfall Brigadier-General Louis Trezevant Wigfall was born on the plantation of his father, in Edgefield district, Harrison county, S. C., April 21, 1816. He attended the Columbian college in South Carolina, taking the regular course, until the outbreak of the Seminole war, when he enlisted, and received a commission as lieutenant of volunteers. After the close of the war, he began the study of law at the university of Virginia, and upon his admission to the bar, in 1846, he moved to Texas and settled at Marshall, where he began the practice. He was elected to the State legislature of 1856-57, and was re-elected to that body for 1859-
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
. and thence to Stow. See Cutter (par. 31), and Cutter Book, 157-58; Coll. Essex Institute, III. 206. Dexter, Jonathan M., and w. Betsey, from ch. in Billerica, adm. here——1815. Had Henry, bap. 21 Mar. 1813; Abba Maria Wellington, bap. 21 Apr. 1816, d. 5 July, 1819, a. 3; Abba Maria Wellington, bap. 15 Apr. 1821. 2. Mary B. m. Peter Edwards, 17 Jan. 1813. Diar, or Dier, Sarah [b. 23 Jan. 1771], from infancy with Seth Russell—bap. 26 May, 1776, et. 4. Dickson, William, and w. Ru Mary, bap. 17 July, 1808, m. Edward Fowle, of Wob.; Josiah, d. 10 (11) Oct. 25 1810, a 2 mos. (7 wks. g. s.); Louisa, bap. 3 Nov. 1811, m. Jeduthun Fowle. of Wob.; Rebecca Ann, bap. 12 Sept. 1813, m. Earl Wyman, of Wob.; Frances Frost, bap. 21 Apr. 1816 (d. 18 Dec. 1835, a. 20); Lucy Frost, bap. 24 May, 1818, m. Jotham Hill, of Woburn. Josiah the father (Capt. of Woburn) d. 21 Aug. 1818, a. 42 or 38. Susanna (widow), dism. from Pct. ch. to the 1st ch. in Woburn, 28 June, 1828. She m. Hen<