Samuel J. Gholson

Samuel Jameson Gholson (May 19, 1808 – October 16, 1883) was a United States representative from Mississippi, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and a General in the Confederate States Army.

Education and career

Born on May 19, 1808, near Richmond in Madison County, Kentucky, Gholson moved with his father to Franklin County, Alabama and attended the common schools. In the spring of 1863 he was appointed as major general of the Mississippi State Troops, and the following year was commissioned as a brigadier general of Confederate cavalry transferred from state service. Gholson was severely wounded in the December 1864 Battle of Egypt Station, and lost his right arm. He resumed private practice in Aberdeen, Mississippi from 1866 to 1878, and from 1878 to 1883. He died on October 16, 1883, in Aberdeen. He was interred in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Aberdeen.