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A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI IN THE CIVIL WAR, published 1993 by The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, page 137, contains a copy print of Brigadier General Winfield Scot~ Featherston and an article regarding his Confederate service. His name is ailso mentioned on pages 46, 98 and 127, with an additional brief article on page 357.

(JFH: Winfield Scott, son of Charles and Lucy (Pitt) Featherston -BRANCH .3)

submitted by: Charles Lee, Ph.D.

APPLETONS' CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY -Volume II

Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske

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FEATHERSTON, Winfield Scott, soldier, b. in Rutherford county, Tenn., 8 Aug., 1821. He was educated at various academies, and in 1836, while at school in Georgia, served for three months as a volunteer against the Creek Indians. He then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was afterward elected to congress as a Democrat, and served in 1847-151, but was defeated for a third term by the Union candidate. He was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852, and was sent by 11is state to Kentucky in December, 1860, to confer with the authorities on the subject of secession. In May, 1861, he became colonel of the 17th Mississippi regiment. He served in Virginia in 1861-'2, and on 4 March of the latter year was promoted to brigadier-general for gallantry at Ball's Bluff. He was wounded on the fifth day of the battles around Richmond, and in January, 1863, was transferred to Vicksburg at his own request. He commanded an expedition sent to meet Porter's gun-boats, ascending Deer Creek, joined Johnston in Georgia in May, 1864, and continued with that army till the surrender in 1865. commanding a division much of the time. After the war he returned to the practice of law, and was a member of the Mississippi legislature in 1876-'8 and 1880-'2. In 1881 he became judge of the 2d judicial circuit of the state.

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, George William, traveller, b. in 1780; d. in Havre, France, 28 Sept., 1866. In his early life he spent many years in North America, and in 1834-'5 made for the U.S. war department a geological inspection of part of the western country. In his reports, which were printed by order of congress. he is called "United States geologist." The government authorized these examinations to be made only in the territories of the United States; but Featherstonhaugh took notes upon all the country passed over in his journeys. for use when congress should authorize a geological map of the United States. Such a map is now projected (1887), fifty years after Featherstonhaugh's surveys. On account of his thorough knowledge of the country, he was appointed by the British government a commissioner to settle the northern boundary of the United States, under the Ashburton treaty, and for the successful execution of this task was made British consul for the departments of Calvados and Seine, France. His writings on statistical and political subjects were clear and vigorous. and his geological memoirs merited the approval of his friends Buckland and Murchison.

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