W. R. Houghton

William Robert Houghton was an American writer, best known for Two Boys in the Civil War and After, which he co-wrote with his younger brother, Mitchell Bennett Houghton.

Biography William Robert Houghton was born in 1842 in Heard County, Georgia. His father, William Henry Houghton, practiced law, but moved to Alabama in the run-up to the American Civil War. Houghton enlisted in the Confederate Army; he joined the Columbus Guards and served with the Second Georgia Regiment. He saw combat in Virginia and Tennessee and was wounded during the Battle of Malvern Hill, and again at the Second Battle of Bull Run. After the war was over, he studied law, passed the bar in 1866, and started a practice in Hayneville, Alabama. He married Anna Streety in 1875; they had a son, Harry. His wife died in 1882, and five years later he moved to Birmingham, where he died in 1906.