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Caption: Winfield Scott Featherstone
Additional Description: Winfield Scott Featherstone (1820-1891), a Tennessee native, was a veteran of the Creek Indian Wars of the 1830s. He moved to Mississippi where he practiced law for 20 years before the war and was elected to Congress in 1847. When the war started, he raised the 17th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. He served in Virginia at Ball’s Bluff then was promoted to brigade command and fought in the Peninsula Campaign, Second Battle of Manassas, and Fredericksburg before being transferred to the West. He led his brigade in the campaigns of Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville. He returned to his practice after the war and served in the Mississippi legislature.
Submitted: May 24, 2017, by Brandon Stahl of Fairfax, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p383292
File Size: 0.086 Megabytes

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