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charge d'aflfaires at Vienna, Austria, 1853-54, and minister resident, 1854-58. He resigned in Jul}', 1858, and was selected by the government to assist the U.S. district-attorney in prosecuting the owners of the Wanderer and other shive trad- ers, which occupied his time for two years. His part in these trials secured for him the disfavor of the people of Georgia and consider- ably affected his law practice. He was offered the cliancel- lorship of the Univer- sity of Georgia in 1859 on the resignation of President Alonzo Church, but declined the position. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention which met at Charleston, S. C, April 23, and Eichmond, Va., June 21, 1860; and was an elector-at-large for Georgia on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket. In 1861, when Georgia seceded from the Union, he commanded the state forces, having been com- missioned major-general by Governor Brown. He was appointed a judge of the Confederate courts and served in this capacity from March till July, 1861. He joined the Confederate army in July, 1861, and was assigned to the armj' oper- ating against McClellan in western Virginia. He succeeded Gen. Robert Selden Garnett, killed at Carrick's Ford, July 13, 1861, to the command of the army, and made strenuous efforts with his small force of less than 3000 men to overcome the victorious army of General McClellan, but was obliged to fall back. He commanded the Georgia state troops on the coast the latter part of 1861; having accepted the commission of major-gen- eral of state troops, and in 1862 he joined the Confederate army under Hood and succeeded Gen. C. H. Stevens in the command of his brig- ade in Walker's division, Hardie's corps, Johns- ton's army of Tennessee in the Atlanta cam- paign, May to September, 1804. He commanded a brigade in Bate's division. Hood's Army of Tennessee in the battles of Franklin, Tcnn. Nov. 30, 1864, and Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. At Nashville he was taken prisoner with his entire command and was prisoner of war till the close of the war, when he resumed the prac- tice of law at Savannah, Ga. He was appointed U.S. minister to Mexico by President Cleveland, March 23. 1885, but resigned a few months later as he could not sustain the administration in the matter of the seizure of the American vessel

Rebecca. He was a trustee of the Peabody Edu- cation fund, 1875-88; president of the Georgia Historical society, 1875-98; trustee of the Univ- ersity of Georgia, 1863-72; president of the Tel- fair Art academy, Savannah, and director of the Central Railroad and Banking company, 1894-98. He received the honorary degrees of A.M. in 1848 and LL.D. in 1893 from the University of Georgia. He is the author of: Talulah and other Poems (1850) and of several separate poems, including Tlie Old Bed Hills of Georgia, which he wrote while serving in the Mexican war, 1846-47. He died in Savannah, Ga.,:May 23. 1898.

JACKSON, Howell Edmunds, jurist, was born at Paris, Tenn., April 8, 1832; son of Dr. Alex- ander and Mary W. (Hurt) Jackson. He was graduated from the West Tenufssee college in 1849; from the University of \'irginia in 1854, and from the law department of Cum- berland university, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1856. He practised law in Jackson, 1856- 58, and removed in 1859 to Memphis, Tenn., where he formed a partnership with the Hon. D. M. Currin. At the out- break of the civil war he was appointed re- ceiver for West Tenn- essee of property se- questrated under the Confederate confiscation act, and held the of- fice until the close of the war. When West Tennessee fell into the hands of the Federal forces, he was prevented from joining the army by the necessity of caring for the funds in his custody, no other person being authorized to re- ceive them. After the close of the war he re- turned to Memphis and resumed the practice of law in partnership with B. M. Estes. In 1874 he removed to Jackson, where he formed a law part- nership with Gen. Alexander W. Campbell. In 1875, and again in 1877, by appointment of the governor, he served on the court of arbitration for West Tennessee, a provisional adjunct to the supreme court, to dispose of cases accumulated during the war. He was also several times ap- pointed to serve as special judge of the supreme court. He was elected a representative to the state legislature on the state credit platform in 1880, and after a prolonged contest was elected to the U.S. senate in January, 1881. He served until April 15, 1886. when, on the death of Judge John Baxter, of the U.S. circuit court for the sixth circuit, he was appointed by President

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