William Y. C. Humes
William Young Conn Humes | |
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Brigadier General[1] | |
Battles/wars | American Civil War |
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William Young Conn Humes (May 1, 1830 – September 11, 1883) was an American educator, lawyer, and soldier. He served as a
Early life and career
William Y.C. Humes was born in 1830 in the town of Abingdon, located in Washington County, Virginia. He was a son of John Newton Humes and his wife Jance Conn White, and he was a cousin of Thomas W. Humes, a lawyer and politician. Because his father had lost his fortune, William Humes needed to borrow money to finish his initial education.[2]
Humes entered the
After graduating, Humes became a teacher to pay off his financial debts. In 1854 he married another resident of Abingdon named Margaret Preston White, with whom he had two sons. He then relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he read law and became a lawyer. In 1858 he moved to Memphis and began a successful law practice. Humes was still a lawyer in Memphis when the American Civil War began.[4]
Civil War service
When the Civil War began in 1861, Humes chose to follow his home states and the Confederate cause. On March 16 he was appointed a
On March 15, 1863, Humes was promoted to the rank of
Humes participated in the
Postbellum career and death
After the war ended, Humes returned to Memphis, Tennessee, and resumed his career as a lawyer. He later relocated to Alabama and again practiced law. Humes died there in Huntsville in 1883, and his body was brought back to Memphis where it was buried in Elmwood Cemetery.[12]
See also
Notes
- ^ Eicher (pp. 309, 815) and Warner (p. 145) both list Humes as a brigadier general, as does his headstone; However Wakelyn (p. 243) lists him as a major general effective March 10, 1865. Warner elaborates: "During the last months of the war he was nominally in divisional command, but the records do not disclose that he was ever officially advanced to the grade of major general."
- ^ Warner, p. 144.
- ^ "Virginia Military Institute archive biography of Humes". vmi.edu. Retrieved March 14, 2009.
- ^ Wakelyn, p. 242.
- ^ a b Eicher, p. 309.
- ^ Wakelyn, pp. 242–3.
- ^ Virginia Military Institute archive biography of Humes; Eicher, p. 309.
- ^ Wright, p. 115. Appointed from Tennessee on November 17, 1863, to rank from the day before, and confirmed by the Confederate Congress on January 25, 1864.
- ^ Wakelyn, p. 243.
- ^ "Battle of Chattanooga Confederate Order of Battle". civilwarhome.com. Retrieved March 14, 2009.
- ^ "Battle of Brown's Mill Confederate Order of Battle". battleofbrownsmill.org. Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved March 14, 2009.
- ^ a b Warner, p. 145; Eicher, p. 309.
- ^ American Civil War
- ^ Eicher, p. 309; Wakelyn, p. 243.
References
- Eicher, John H., and ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.
- Wakelyn, Jon L., Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy, Greenwood Press, 1977, ISBN 0-8371-6124-X.
- ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9.
- ISBN 0-8488-0009-5.
- battleofbrownsmill.org Archived March 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Battle of Brown's Mill Confederate Order of Battle.
- civilwarhome.com Chattanooga CampaignConfederate Order of Battle.
- vmi.edu Virginia Military Institute archive biography of Humes.
Further reading
- Fisher, John E., They Rode with Forrest and Wheeler, McFarland & Co., Inc, 1995, ISBN 0-7864-0083-8.