Thomas N. Waul was a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress from Texas between February 19, 1861, and February 17, 1862, when a permanent Confederate government was established.[1][2][3][6] He served on the Committee on Commercial Affairs and Committee on Indian Affairs.[6] He opposed the African slave trade as a diplomatic effort and restrictions on the cotton trade.[3] He supported establishment of the central government, free trade, and local defense.[3] Waul lost his run for a seat in the First Confederate Congress of the regular Congress of the Confederate States.[3]
On April 30, 1864, after being transferred to Arkansas to oppose Union Major GeneralFrederick Steele'sCamden Expedition, Brigadier General Waul was wounded in the left arm at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry.[1][2][4][6] He returned to service in September 1864 and until December 1864 commanded Brigade I, Division I, I Corps of the Trans-Mississippi Department.[1] From January 1865 to May 26, 1865, he commanded Brigade I, Division I, of the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the Trans-Mississippi Department.[1] There is no record of his parole.[1]
Later life
After the Civil War, Waul returned to Texas where he was elected to the first Texas Reconstruction convention.[2] After practicing law at Galveston, Waul retired to Hunt County, Texas, near Greenville, where he was a farmer on his property named Cherry Hill Plantation. A marker still stands to this day on the property, honoring General Waul's life.[1][2][3] Thomas Neville Waul died in Hunt County, Texas, on July 28, 1903.[1][2][8] He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery at Fort Worth, Texas.[1] Waul had no blood relatives at the time of his death.[3]
^ abcdefghijFaust, Patricia L. "Waul, Thomas Neville" in Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ISBN978-0-06-273116-6. p. 809.
^ abcdeBoatner, Mark Mayo, III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: McKay, 1988. ISBN0-8129-1726-X. First published New York, McKay, 1959. pp. 896–897.
^Warner, 1959, pp. 328–329 gives the date as 1859 but this apparently is a typographical error.
^ abcdefSifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN0-8160-1055-2. p. 698.
^Warner, 1959, p. 329 gives the same date of promotion but says it was after Waul's exchange.
^Faust, 1986, p. 809 gives the date as July 28, 1908 but again, this is an apparent typographical error.
Faust, Patricia L. "Waul, Thomas Neville" in Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ISBN978-0-06-273116-6.
Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN978-0-8160-1055-4.
Warner, Ezra J.Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. ISBN978-0-8071-0823-9.