William Henry Carroll

William Henry Carroll ( * 1810 in Nashville, Tennessee, † May 3, 1868 in Montreal) was a brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

Life

Carroll was born as the eldest son of William Carroll, the six-time governor of Tennessee and intimate friend of Andrew Jackson. After he had lived as a plantation owner in Panola County, Mississippi a few years, he moved to Memphis in 1848. There he worked for several years as postmaster of the city.

With the outbreak of the Civil War Carroll was first appointed brigadier general of the provisional army of the State of Tennessee and adopted after accession Tennessee for the Confederacy as Colonel of the 37th Tennessee Regiment in the Army of the Confederate States of America.

On October 26, 1861 Carroll was promoted to brigadier general and mixed immediately to Knoxville, Tennessee. There he imposed martial law in order to gain control of the sympathetic to the northern states inhabitants of the east of the state.

For his service in the Battle of Fishing Creek, where his brigade withdrew ranked among small losses to Carroll acted criticism Braxton Braggs a, which German him as " not safe ... to entrust with command" (: unsafe ... entrusted to a command get ) designated. At the instigation of Braggs Carroll was arrested for drunkenness, incompetence and negligence and brought before a court-martial. After the trial he gave on February 1, 1863 back his command and followed his family, which had emigrated after the capture of Memphis by Union troops to Canada. He died in Montreal on May 3, 1868.