Waul
THOMAS NEVILLE, American lawyer; born in Sumter District, S. C., Jan. 5, 1813; was educated at Columbia College in 1829-1832, and was later admitted to the bar and began prac- WAUSAU tice in Mississippi; removed to Gonzales co., Tex., in 1850; was a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States in 1861. During that year he recruited 2,000 troops, known as Waul's Legion; was commissioned colonel of this body; and remained with it throughout the war. He rendered the Confederates important services as commander of the defenses at Tallahatchie and Yazoo rivers, Miss., and during the seige of Vicksburg; was promoted Brigadier-General and later took a conspicuous part in the battles of Pleasant Hill and Mansfield, La. He was subsequently seriously wounded while leading a division in the battle of Saline. In 1865 he was a member of the Texas Reconstruction Convention; resumed the practice of law in Galveston, Tex.; and retired in 1896. He died died in 1906.