Civil War Service
In 1861 he became Adjutant General of Tennessee for the Confederacy, and served that post through the end of the Civil War. He also served on the staff of generals Robert Anderson, Marcus Joseph Wright, Samuel P. Carter, and William J. Hardee.
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