Named Entity Results, George Taliafezzo Ward

The Late Colonel Ward --Col. George Taliafezzo Ward, of Florida, who fell in the fight at Williamsburg, on the 5th of May, was a son of Kentucky, but of Old Dominion stock. He went to Florida while a youth, and made his debut at the bar in 1868, in a speech for the defence in an exciting criminal case, which, for eloquence and legal ingenuity, was a complete success, and placed him at once at the head of his profession. He was for many years a leading politician of his adopted State; wasCol. George Taliafezzo Ward, of Florida, who fell in the fight at Williamsburg, on the 5th of May, was a son of Kentucky, but of Old Dominion stock. He went to Florida while a youth, and made his debut at the bar in 1868, in a speech for the defence in an exciting criminal case, which, for eloquence and legal ingenuity, was a complete success, and placed him at once at the head of his profession. He was for many years a leading politician of his adopted State; was a member of the Convention which passed the ordinance of secession, and was by that body chosen a member of the Provisional Congress, a position which he resigned to accept a military commission, and handed the first regiment of volunteers that left Florida for the theatre of war in Virginia. He won a high reputation for courage and gallantry of the Peninsula, and attained a favorable position among his companions in arms. He fell in the front of his column, in the heat of the conflict, and