Samuel Wragg Ferguson
Samuel Wragg Ferguson (born November 3, 1834 in Charleston , South Carolina , † February 3, 1917 in Jackson , Mississippi ) was a Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War .
biography
After attending school, Ferguson attended the Military Academy at West Point , New York , graduating in 1857. He then took part in the Utah War between May 1857 and July 1858 and retired from the US Army as a lieutenant in 1861 .
At the beginning of the Civil War , he joined the Confederate Army and became an adjutant on the staff of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard . Ferguson took part in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 and the first Battle of Corinth from April to May 1862. In the following years he was used in Vicksburg and Ditchley and suffered several wounds before he could return to his service in Mississippi in February 1863. Ferguson served in the 5th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War and as a lieutenant colonel and deputy commander in the 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. In July 1863 he was promoted to brigadier general and attacked with his units on February 24, 1864 troops of General William T. Sherman east of Pearl River .
After the war he studied law and was after the lawyer's admission as a lawyer in Mississippi worked before he in 1876 president of the US Commission on the Mississippi ( US Board of Mississippi River Commissions was). He was also the treasurer and secretary of the levees authority for the Mississippi. During this time it came to the Mississippi Levee Board Scandal in the 1894 the loss of 20,000 to 40,000 US dollars from the budget of the authority was found. After the scandal, Ferguson left the United States and lived for several years as a civil engineer in Ecuador before moving to Jackson when he was old.
See also
Web links
- Civil War Reference
- Jack D. Welsh, Md, Jack D. Welsh: Medical Histories of Confederate Generals . Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 1999, ISBN 0-87338-649-3 , pp. 53 ff . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Samuel W. Ferguson in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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| SURNAME | Ferguson, Samuel Wragg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleston , South Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1917 |
| Place of death | Jackson , Mississippi |