[628] college at LaGrange. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1837, and two years later, at the age of twenty-one years, was chosen judge of probate. In 1845 he removed to Aberdeen, Mississippi, and there practiced law until 1861, when he organized a company of volunteers, which was assigned to the Twenty-seventh Mississippi regiment, of which he was commissioned major and subsequently lieutenant-colonel. He did duty as judge advocate of the army of Tennessee six months, and was then promoted colonel and ordered to report to General Bragg as chief of staff. On his return to Mississippi in 1865 he resumed his professional career, and held high rank among the jurists of the South. He died January 24, 1876.
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[628] college at LaGrange. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1837, and two years later, at the age of twenty-one years, was chosen judge of probate. In 1845 he removed to Aberdeen, Mississippi, and there practiced law until 1861, when he organized a company of volunteers, which was assigned to the Twenty-seventh Mississippi regiment, of which he was commissioned major and subsequently lieutenant-colonel. He did duty as judge advocate of the army of Tennessee six months, and was then promoted colonel and ordered to report to General Bragg as chief of staff. On his return to Mississippi in 1865 he resumed his professional career, and held high rank among the jurists of the South. He died January 24, 1876.
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