Mathew Duncan Ector

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Mathew Duncan Ector

Matthew Duncan Ector (* 28. February 1822 in Putnam County , Georgia , † 29. October 1879 in Tyler , Texas ) was an American politician, lawyer and Brigadier General of Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

Ector was born in Georgia in 1822 to Hugh and Dorothy Ector. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to Greenville , Georgia. He graduated from Center College in Danville , Kentucky before studying law with Hiram Warner , a Georgia Supreme Court Justice. In 1842, Ector was elected to the Georgia Parliament for one term to represent his district. In 1850 he moved to Texas, where he settled in Henderson as a practicing attorney after his license to practice in 1851 . In the same year he married Letitia Graham. In 1856 he was elected as the representative of Rusk County in theTexas House of Representatives .

Civil War

When the Civil War broke out, Ector joined the Confederate Army and was soon promoted to lieutenant and regimental adjutant of the 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment. After a few skirmishes in Texas and Arkansas he was promoted to colonel in May 1862 and regimental commander of the 14th Texas Cavalry Regiment, a regiment that was only used as infantry throughout the war due to the acute shortage of horses. For his services in the Kentucky campaign, he was promoted to brigadier general in the fall of 1862 . In the following years he led his brigade on December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863 in the Battle of Murfreesboro in Tennessee and on September 19 and 20, 1863 in the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia. In the course of the Atlanta campaign , Ector was so badly wounded on July 27, 1864 that his left leg had to be amputated at knee level. The war ended before his health was restored.

After the war he went back to Texas and moved to Marshall in 1868 . After various activities as a judge and district judge, he was appointed to the Texas Court of Appeals in 1875 , where he remained until his death in 1879. The Ector County , Texas was named after him.

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
  • Richard N. Current, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0132759918 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
  • Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ector, Mathew Duncan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ector, Matthew Duncan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, lawyer, and Confederate Brigadier General in the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Putnam County , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1879
Place of death Tyler , Texas