The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . appointeddeputy surveyor in thatland district and held theposition four years, al-ternating his duties assurveyor with work as atutor for the children ofa private family. He was elected Captain in the militia andJustice of the Peace in 1842. In 1843 he was with General Tar-rant in an expedition to the cross timbers against the Indians,and in the same year was Captain of a company organized tosuppress the trouble between the Regulators and Moderators inEast Texas. He engaged in farming and stock raising in Kauf-man County in 1844, at
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . appointeddeputy surveyor in thatland district and held theposition four years, al-ternating his duties assurveyor with work as atutor for the children ofa private family. He was elected Captain in the militia andJustice of the Peace in 1842. In 1843 he was with General Tar-rant in an expedition to the cross timbers against the Indians,and in the same year was Captain of a company organized tosuppress the trouble between the Regulators and Moderators inEast Texas. He engaged in farming and stock raising in Kauf-man County in 1844, at which time, having studied law, he ob-tained a temporary license to practice. When the County ofHenderson was organized he was elected Chief Justice of thecounty and Lieutenant Colonel of the militia, and in 1847 waselected to the Legislature. In 1849 he was given full licenseto practice law and was in the active practice until 1852, whenhe was elected District Judge for a term of six years. Whileholding court at Kaufman he was prevailed upon to accept the. 238 The History and Geography of Texas nomination for a seat in the United States Congress, with JudgeLemuel Dale Evans for an opponent on the Know-Nothingticket. There ensued one of the most exciting canvasses in thepolitical history of the State. He was triumphantly was re-elected in 1859 and was in the discharge of his dutieswhen the Civil War began. He was a delegate to the StateSecession Convention in 1861, and was at the Provisional Con-gress which met at Montgomery, on March 6, 1861. He waschosen Postmaster General of the Southern Confederacy andheld that position until 1865. After abandoning Richmond heand other members of the official family of Jefferson Daviswere pursued and captured by Federal troops near Irwinville,Ga. He was imprisoned in Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, andwas released in the summer of 1865. He returned to Texas andwent to work at manual labor on his farm. While so engagedhe was tender
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