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Louis Trezevant Wigfall

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Born: April 21, 1816

Birthplace: Edgefield, South Carolina

Father: Levi Durant Wigfall – 1818
(Buried: Wigfall Family Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Mother: Eliza Thomson Wigfall

Wife: Charlotte Maria Cross Wigfall
(Buried: Lorraine Park Cemetery, Woodlawn, Maryland)​

Children:

Frances Halsey Wigfall 1844 – 1897​
(Buried: Lorraine Park Cemetery, Woodlawn, Maryland)​
Louise Sophie Wigfall Wright 1846 – 1915​
(Buried: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Owings Mills, Maryland)​
Mary Frances “Fannie” Wigfall Taylor 1852 – 1924​
(Buried: Lorraine Park Cemetery, Woodlawn, Maryland)​
Education:

Attended University of Virginia
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1837: Graduated from South Carolina College​
Occupation before War:

Served in the Third Seminole War rising to the rank of Lt.​
Attorney in Edgefield, South Carolina​
Participated in Duels over Political Issues​
Aide and Lt. Colonel on Staff of Governor of South Carolina​
1844: Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention​
Attorney in Nacogdoches, Texas​
1849 – 1850: Texas State Representative​
1857 – 1860: Texas State Senator​
Staunch Political Opponent of General Sam Houston​
1859 – 1861: United States Senator from Texas​

Civil War Career:

Advocated an attack on Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens​
1861: Aide to General P. G. T. Beauregard
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1861: Colonel of 1st Texas Infantry Regiment​
1861 – 1862: Brigadier General of Confederate States Army, Infantry​
1862: Resigned as Brigadier General on February of 1862​
1862 – 1865: Confederate States Senator from Texas​
Close Friend of General Joseph E. Johnston​
Challenged President Davis on Military Related Policies​

Occupation after War:

1866 – 1872: Lived in London, England​
Owner of a Mine in Clear Creek, Colorado​

Died: February 18, 1874

Place of Death: Galveston, Texas

Age at time of Death: 57 years old

Cause of Death: Apoplexy

Burial Place: Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas

Grave Location: Near Center – South Side – 40 feet from fence
 
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There are many Wigfall storys that are familiar to followers of the Civil War. He is mentioned several times on Mary Chesnut Diary.Isn't he the one who turned his back or refused to stand when Jefferson Davis entered a room?
Wouldn't be surprised if that were true as he being one of the leaders of the anti-Davis opposition
 
There are many Wigfall storys that are familiar to followers of the Civil War. He is mentioned several times on Mary Chesnut Diary.Isn't he the one who turned his back or refused to stand when Jefferson Davis entered a room?
Supportive of Joe Johnston and Beauregard and a friend of the military yet very anti-Jefferson Davis. Wigfall could very well being called an obstructionist.
 
His wife,Charlotte, made the regimental flag out of her wedding dress (white silk) for the 1st Texas.The 4th Texas received the gift of a regimental flag from Wigfall's daughter Louise as well. She was kind of a mascot and known as the "daughter of the regiment".
 
His wife,Charlotte, made the regimental flag out of her wedding dress (white silk) for the 1st Texas.The 4th Texas received the gift of a regimental flag from Wigfall's daughter Louise as well. She was kind of a mascot and known as the "daughter of the regiment".

My Grandmother's Grand Dad was among the few surviving original members of the 1st Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade.

He wrote a story of his war experience in about 1915, still extant. Wigfall was his first regimental commander.

Celebrating Hood as a soldier, for a good part of his career, is one thing. Celebrating Wigfall, the politician, is quite another.

Nearly a million people died, who didn't have to, for what came out of the latter's mouth.
 
Louisiana State University
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LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Graduate School
1975

Senatorial Speaking of Louis T. Wigfall 1860-1861: a Study of Agitational Rhetoric.
Donald Travis Garnett
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

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ABSTRACT
Because Louis Wigfall's actions, utterances, and behavior suggested he used speaking opportunities to achieve agitational goals, a methodology was developed to explain his conduct in the United States Senate. This is a case study of Wigfall's rhetorical acts: his
parliamentary maneuvers, questions directed to other senators, responses, speeches, and general deportment from January, I860 when he arrived in Washington as a freshman senator until he left in late March 1861 under the cloud of his certain emulsion. Specifically, the study attempts to explicate the evolving image of a secession agitator during a time when calmer voices might have produced compromise and avoided dissolution and war. Through detailed examination of Wigfall's day by day activities the study attests to identify agitational characteristics and strategies as they reveal themselves in his activities and speeches.



Cheers,
USS ALASKA
 

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