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Submitted: 10/13/20 • Approved: 11/1/20 • Last Updated: 11/4/20 • R289042-G0-S3
CSA
12 Mississippi Regiment
Civil War Confederate
March, 1843 - February 5, 1908
The death of Honorable George W Montgomery at his plantation, near Tallulah, in Madison Parish, which
was announced in a dispatch to the Picayune yesterday morning, will cause a pang of sincere regret all over the State, because he was well known and admired for many high qualities. He was a tower of strength in north Louisiana in the days when the negroes were first tasting their power; to him as much as any other man in north Louisiana was due the pacification of that part of the State. He was a man of great personal courage, and the incidents in his life during the early seventies would make a most thrilling narrative.
He was born in Hinds County, Mississippi, in 1843, and was educated at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. While still at college the Civil War broke out, and he returned home to enlist in the Twelfth Mississippi Regiment. He served with this command with distinction in the Army of Northern Virginia until a few weeks after the siege of Petersburg, when he was promoted and assigned to duty in the cavalry under Forrest, engaging in many of the famous raids of that intrepid commander. He was wounded at Chancellors- ville, but soon recovered and resumed active service, continuing until the close of the war.
Returning from the battle fields full of honors, he settled in Madison Parish, near Tallulah, where
he lived to the time of his death, acquiring large property interests. He served four years as President
of the Police Jury and for twelve years was a member of the State Senate. In 1898 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention, and then served as a member of the House for a number of years. Later,
he returned to the Senate.
He was married in 1879 to Mrs M R Van Benthuysen, daughter of the late Dr Trezevant of New Orleans,
and they had two children, a son and a daughter.
Contributed on 10/13/20 by debbraszymanski
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