WIGFALL, Louis Trezevant

Confederate

Born: April 21 1816, nr Edgefield SC

Died: February 18 1874, Galveston TX

Pre-War Profession: Lawyer, politician, US senator, expelled from the Senate July 1861

War Service: 1861 aide to Beauregard at Fort Sumter, appointed to Confederate congress, August 1861 Col. in 1st Texas, October 1861 Brig. Gen. in Provisional Army, resigned February 1862 to sit in the senate, opposed President Davis' military policy, mostly responsible for R E Lee being named General-in-chief in 1865.

Post War: Fled to Texas, then to England, returned to US.