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Rh went into the Mexican war as captain, and was soon elected colonel. When Mississippi organized for the war of 1861, he was first a brigadier- general of State troops, afterward major-general, and was commissioned brigadier-general in the provisional army of the Confederate States. At Shiloh he commanded a division and was wounded in the shoulder. At Baton Rouge he also commanded a division, was severely wounded, captured and taken to New Orleans. When he returned home, being disabled by his wounds from further military service, he was elected governor of the State, in 1864, a position he held until the Confederacy dissolved. He was imprisoned at Fort Pulaski, and on his release resumed his law practice. In 1876 he was appointed district chancellor of chancery. He died in December, 1877, at his plantation in Bolivar county.

Claiborne Fox Jackson, governor of Missouri at the beginning of the war, was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, April 4, 1807. He emigrated to Missouri in 1822, raised a volunteer company and served as its captain in the Black Hawk war. For twelve years he was a member of the legislature, was speaker of the house one term, was one of the originators of the banking house system of Missouri, and for several years was bank commissioner, his ability as a financier and administrative officer becoming widely recognized. In 1860 he was elected governor of the State, and was inaugurated January 4, 1861. In his address on this occasion he declared that Missouri could not endure the doctrine of coercion, but must adhere to the cause of the South, and recommended a State convention to determine the will of the people. In May following he called an extra session of the legislature and recommended placing the State in an attitude of defense against Northern aggression. On September 16, 1861, Governor Jackson abandoned the capitol, on the advance of the Federal forces, and on the 26th called an