Obituary of General W. L. Cabell, Sebastian Co, Ar

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Cabell, W. L. - New York Times, Feb. 23, 1911 - Gen. W. L. Cabell Dead - Age 84
- Dallas, Feb. 22 - Former Commander of the Trans-Missisippi Department of the
United Confederate Veterans and one of the best known ex-Confederates in the
South, died at his home here tonight. Gen. William Lewis Cabell was born in
Danville, Va., on Jan. 1, 1827. He entered the U.S. Military Academy in 1846
and graduated in 1850. When the Civil war became inevitable, he moved to Ft.
Smith, Ark. And resigned from the Army. He was summoned to Montgomery, Ala. By
Jefferson Davis and was sent to Richmond with a Major's Commission to organize
the Quartermaster, Commissary, and Ordnance Departments. He fought at Bull Run,
and in Jan. 1862, he was sent to the Trans - Missisippi department where he was
promoted to Brig. General and assigned to the command of all the troops on the
White River to hold the enemy in check until after the battle of Elk Horn. He
faught at Iuka, Saltillo, and Corinth, where he was wounded. After his recovery,
he commanded a cavalry brigade in Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri. On the raid
into Missouri he was captured and sent to Ft. Warren in Boston harbor, where he
was confined till August 1865. He was chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee in Arkansas and of the Arkansas delegation to the Balitmore convention
which nominated Horace Greeley for President. He moved to Dallas, Texas, where
he was elected Mayor four times. He was President and General Manager of the
Texas Trunk Railroad for four years, and U. S. Marshal for the Northern District
of Texas during Cleveland's first Administration. In 1890 he was chosen Lt. Gen.
of the Trans - Mississippi Dept., of United Confederate Veterans, and was
reelected several times.

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