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f President Davis and Gen. Lee, and remained there three years, when he received a bayonet wound through his right wrist, which permanently disabled him. He then resigned, and studied law at Winchester under the elder Tucker at the same time with C. J. Faulkner and H. A. Wise. He practiced law in Tennessee, and was frequently elected to the Legislature of that State. At the breaking out of the Mexican war he raised a large volunteer company, and was in every important engagement from Vera Cruz to Chapultepec, at which latter engagement he acted most heroically, having seventeen of his men killed the first fire, and as an appreciation of his bravery, a sword was presented to him by his company, bearing the following inscription: "Never mind it, boys! Company, forward! Remember, you are Tennesseeans!" He was the first to raise a company of volunteers in Tennessee for the Southern cause, and was elected as one of the Majors of the 1st Tennessee regiment, but the Confederate