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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
employed as aide-de-camp on the General's staff. After Johnston's death Governor Harris continued to serve at the general headquarters of the army in the west throughout the war, and took part in all important battles except Perryville. At the close of the struggle he went to Mexico, in August, 1861, and eighteen months later, to England, where he remained a year. In 1867 he returned and resumed his law practice at Memphis. He was elected to the United States Senate, taking his seat March 5, 1877, and promptly became a leading member of that distinguished body. Notwithstanding his arduous part in great and exciting events, he retained his remarkable force to the end of his lengthened life. His sixth term in the Senate would have expired in 1901, but death came in 1897 to close his career. Robert Looney Carruthers Robert Looney Carruthers, elected as the successor of Governor Harris of Tennessee, was born in Smith county, that State, July 31, 1800. He began the practice o