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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Watts, Thomas Hill 1820-1892
Legislator; born in Butler county, Ala., Jan. 3, 1820; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1840; admitted to the bar and began practice in his native city; elected to the State legislature in 1842 and to the State Senate in 1853; and represented Montgomery county in the State convention of 1861.
He entered the Confederate service as colonel at the beginning of the Civil War; resigned his post in 1862 after the battle of Shiloh, in which he greatly distinguished himself, on being appointed Attorney-General in President Davis's cabinet; and was elected governor of Alabama in 1863.
He died in Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 16, 1892.
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)