Barksdale, William
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 21, 1821, in Rutherford county, Tenn. He pursued a partial course of studies at the Nashville university; was a lawyer by profession; held a commission in the staff of the second Mississippi regiment, in the Mexican war, in 1847. He was a member of the Mississippi convention called in 1851 to discuss the compromise measures of 1850; and was elected representative from Mississippi in the thirty-third, thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth congresses. He was killed July 2, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg.