General Thomas N. Waul, C.S.A.

Waul owned a cotton plantation on the Guadalupe River in Gonzales County, where he also practiced law, according to the Handbook of Texas. In 1861 he sat in the Confederate Provisional Congress and favored a constitutional guarantee of the right to import enslaved people from anywhere except Africa. He and his legion were captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, and he was soon exchanged. He was wounded at Jenkins' Ferry in 1864. After the war he returned to the plantation, served in the 1866 constitutional convention and later practiced law in Galveston.

What the plaque says

General Thomas N. Waul, C.S.A. A native of South Carolina, Thomas Neville Waul (1813?-1903) practiced law in Mississippi before moving to Texas in 1850. After serving in the Provisional Confederate Congress and signing the 1861 Confederate constitution, he organized Waul's Texas Legion, C.S.A. Waul led the Texans in Mississippi during 1862 and 1863, participating in the defense of Vicksburg. He led a brigade in the Red River Campaign of 1864 at Mansfield, La., and Jenkins' Ferry, Ark. Waul returned to Texas in 1865 and resumed the practice of law. He died near Greenville and was buried at this site. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 1.3 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 1.3 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 1.8 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 2.2 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

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