William Henry Carroll

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William Henry Carroll

William Henry Carroll (born around 1810 in Nashville , Tennessee , † May 3, 1868 in Montreal ) was a brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War .

Life

Carroll was born the eldest son of William Carroll , the six-time governor of Tennessee and intimate friend of Andrew Jackson . After living as a plantation owner in Panola County , Mississippi for several years , he moved to Memphis in 1848 . There he worked for several years as the city's postmaster.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Carroll was initially appointed brigadier general of the Provisional Army of the State of Tennessee and after Tennessee joined the Confederation, he was taken over as Colonel of the 37th Tennessee Regiment in the Army of the Confederate States of America.

On October 26, 1861, Carroll was promoted to brigadier general and immediately transferred to Knoxville , Tennessee. There he imposed martial law in order to gain control over the inhabitants of the east of the state who sympathized with the northern states .

For his service in the Battle of Fishing Creek , where his brigade withdrew in an orderly manner with minor losses, Carroll received criticism from Braxton Braggs , who entrusted him as "not safe ... to entrust with command" (German: too insecure ... a command) to get) designated. At Bragg's instigation, Carroll was arrested for drunkenness, incompetence and negligence and brought to court. After the negotiation, he returned his command on February 1, 1863 and followed his family, who had emigrated to Canada after the Union troops had taken Memphis . There he died in Montreal on May 3, 1868.

See also

literature

  • James Spencer: Civil War Generals. Categorical listings and a biographical directory . Greenwood Press, Westport, CO 1986, ISBN 0-313-25423-0 .
  • Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray. Lives of the Confederate Commanders . University Press, Baton Rouge, LA 2006, ISBN 0-8071-3150-4 (reprinted from Baton Rouge, LA 1959).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray - Lives of the Confederate Commanders . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA 1959; p. 44f.
personal data
SURNAME Carroll, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army in the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH around 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1868
Place of death Montreal