After teaching for a short time, he studied law and entered
on the practice of his profession in Nashville.
In the Confederate army he held the rank of Colonel, and
subsequently of Brigadier General, and fell, shot through the heart, at
Murfreesboro', Dec. 31, 1862.
He married Miss Yeatman, a step-daughter of John Bell,
formerly U. S. Senator from Tennessee.
SOURCE: Obituary
Record of Graduates of Yale College Deceased from July, 1859, to July 1870,
p. 140-1
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