This carte de visite (CDV) photograph is a chest up view of Waul in Confederate uniform. He wears a double-breasted frock with the three stars visible on the collar. Image is clear but light. Photograph is pasted to a plain mount. No photographer’s backmark. Ex-William Turner collection.

Thomas Neville Waul (January 5, 1813 – July 28, 1903) was a prominent Confederate States Army brigadier general during the Civil War, as well as a lawyer, judge, legislator, and planter. Born in the Sumter District of South Carolina, Waul attended South Carolina College before moving to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1835, and by 1850, he relocated to Gonzales County, Texas, establishing a successful law practice and a cotton plantation along the Guadalupe River. An ardent secessionist, Waul served in the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861, where he actively signed the Confederate Constitution and pushed for legislation to fortify the Texas frontier. In the spring of 1862, Waul recruited a massive 2,000-man "Legion" out of Brenham, Texas, comprised of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. They trained at Camp Waul before being deployed across the Mississippi River. During the climactic Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863, Waul’s Legion famously counterattacked and repelled a federal breach by the 77th Illinois Infantry, capturing two Union flags. Waul was captured when Vicksburg fell on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged in the autumn of 1863, he was promoted to brigadier general. He was sent to the Trans-Mississippi Department, where he commanded a brigade at the Battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, and was subsequently wounded at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry in 1864. Following the war, Waul participated in Texas's first Reconstruction convention. He returned to practicing law in Galveston before eventually retiring to a farm named "Cherry Hill" near Greenville, Texas, where he grew successful commercial orchards. He passed away at the age of 90 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas.  [jet][ph:L]

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