Thomas Neville Waul Thomas Neville Waul ( January 5 , 1813 – July 28 , 1903 ) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War ( Civil War ) . Before the Civil War , he was a teacher , lawyer , judge and planter . He served for a year in the Provisional Confederate Congress from Texas . He was captured at the fall of Vicksburg , Mississippi on July 4 , 1863 and exchanged in October 1863 . After his promotion , Waul served in the Confederate Trans - Mississippi Department . He was wounded at the Battle of Jenkins ' Ferry . After the Civil War , Waul was a farmer and lawyer who lived in Texas until aged 90 . Early life . Thomas N . Waul was born January 5 , 1813 in the Sumter District , now Sumter County , South Carolina , near Statesburg , South Carolina . He attended South Carolina College , now the University of South Carolina , until his junior year , then moved to Florence , Alabama where he was a teacher . He moved to Vicksburg , Mississippi in 1830 where he became a lawyer in 1835 and judge . In 1850 , he moved to Gonzales County , Texas and became a planter . Waul made an unsuccessful run for a seat in the United States Congress in 1854 . He served as a delegate to the Texas secession convention . American Civil War service . Thomas N . Waul was a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress from Texas between February 19 , 1861 and February 17 , 1862 when a permanent Confederate government was established . He served on the Committee on Commercial Affairs and Committee on Indian Affairs . He opposed the African slave trade as a diplomatic effort and restrictions on the cotton trade . He supported establishment of the central government , free trade and local defense . Waul lost his run for a seat in the First Confederate Congress of the Regular or Permanent Congress of the Confederate States . On May 17 , 1862 , Waul entered Confederate States Army service as colonel of Waul ' s Legion , which he recruited . Waul was captured at the fall of Vicksburg , Mississippi on July 4 , 1863 . Waul was promoted to brigadier general on September 18 , 1863 although he was not exchanged until October 16 , 1863 . His performance and leadership were commended by then Major General Stephen D . Lee . Waul then commanded a brigade in John G . Walker ' s division in the Confederate Trans - Mississippi Department . Waul ' s brigade fought in the Red River campaign at the Battle of Mansfield and the Battle of Pleasant Hill . On April 30 , 1864 , after being transferred to Arkansas to oppose Union Major General Frederick Steele ' s Camden Expedition , Brigadier General Waul was wounded in the left arm at the Battle of Jenkins ' Ferry Arkansas . He returned to service in September 1864 and until December 1864 commanded Brigade I , Division I , I Corps of the Trans - Mississippi Department . From January 1865 to May 26 , 1865 , he commanded Brigade I , Division I , of the District of Texas , New Mexico and Arizona in the Trans - Mississippi Department . There is no record of his parole . Aftermath . After the Civil War , Waul returned to Texas where he was elected to the first Texas reconstruction convention . After practicing law at Galveston , Texas , Waul retired to Hunt County , Texas , near Greenville , where he was a farmer . Thomas Neville Waul died near Greenville , Texas on July 28 , 1903 . He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery at Fort Worth , Texas . Waul had no blood relatives at the time of his death .