Confederate brigadier general. Born in Woodford, home of his grandfather. Parents lived Louisiana, Graduate Yale Univer., 1853. Distinguished for leadership at Shiloh, in 1862 Kentucky campaign, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and Hood's later invasion of Tennessee. U.S. House 1875-83, and Senate 1883-92, from Louisiana. Buried Lexington, Ky., Cemetery.

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