Richard Waterhouse (general)
| Richard Waterhouse, Jr. | |
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Richard Waterhouse
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| Born | January 12, 1832 Rhea County, Tennessee |
| Died | March 20, 1876 Waco, Texas |
| Buried | Oakwood Cemetery Jefferson, Texas |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Confederate States of America |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Confederate States Army |
| Years of service | 1862–1865 (CSA) |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General (CSA)
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| Commands held | 19th Texas Infantry Regiment Waterhouse's Brigade 3rd Brigade, Texas Division |
| Battles/wars | |
| Other work | merchant, land speculator |
Richard Waterhouse (January 12, 1832 – March 20, 1876) was an American Civil War Confederate brigadier general.
Mexican-American War
American Civil War
Waterhouse was born in Rhea County, Tennessee. As a teenager, he ran away from home to fight in the Mexican–American War. After he returned, he and his parents moved to San Augustine, Texas in 1849. There he engaged in the mercantile business until the outbreak of the American Civil War.
During the Civil War, he helped to raise the Nineteenth Texas Infantry in and around Jefferson and was elected colonel of the unit on May 13, 1862. He served under Thomas C. Hindman and Theophilus H. Holmes in Arkansas and under Richard Taylor in Louisiana.
At Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, on August 18, 1862, he won high commendations from Henry Eustace McCulloch for leading a determined charge against Federal troops within artillery range of Union gunboats. McCulloch reported, "not only by a gallant and desperate charge over the levee" but by driving the enemy "to the very brink of the river and within short and direct range of the gunboats of the enemy." After transfer to William R. Scurry's brigade, he fought at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill during the Red River Campaign in spring 1864.
General E. Kirby Smith, who was commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department, was impressed with Waterhouse and he appointed Waterhouse Brigadier General to rank from April 30, 1864. The promotion was not confirmed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis until March 17, 1865 and by the Confederate Senate until the 18th, the last day the legislators were in session before the government collapsed.
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