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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
didate tor President of the United States in
1860, and he has ever since been an ardent
and constant Democrat. While in the service
he was appointed as guard of the Hannibal
then he was ordered
to Louis, Missouri, as Hospital Steward at
the Fifth Street Hospital; shortly afterward
he was detailed to take charge of the hospital
on the steamer Warsaw and proceeded with
the steamer to Bird's Point. He was with
the regiment at Shiloh, taking part in the
battle at that place, and was seriously
wounded twice. Though not fit for service.
he was appointed Hospital Steward in the
United States army, and ordered back to Benton
Barracks, where he took charge of all the
hospitals, with Colonel B. L. Bonneville in
command. While on duty he met and made
the acquaintance of Miss. Emma Wilmans, and
on September 26, 1862, in St. Louis, they
were married. Miss Wilinans was the
daughter of Caleb Wilmans, of Fairfield Illinois,
one of the early pioneers and manufacturers
of that State; her mother was a Miss
Ridgway of Philadelphia, and cousin of Hon.
Thomas Ridgway of Illinois. While in
charge of the hospital he was presented with
a beautiful sword, which, however, during
the excitement and confusion of war was
lost, and was not found for twenty-five years,
when it came to hand through the instrumentality
of Captain Brown, an old friend.
His sister, having obtained a clue to its
whereabouts, sent to her brother in Texas,
George Brown of the Texas Pacific Railroad
at Fort Worth, who returned it to the owner.
It is a priceless heirloom.
From Benton Barracks Mr. Wylie went
to Memphis, Tennessee, but the old wound
was so painful that he resigned and entered
the grocery business there. Soon, however,
a call came from the Government forreinforcements; and he was appointed Lientenant
Colonel of the Second Regiment of
Militia for the protection of the city of
Memphis. After a short residence there he
went to the mouth of White river and in
connection with Dr. Wilmans opened a plantation,
and also established a wood-yard to
supply United States boats. General Reynolds
with a force occupied the premises and
destroyed both wood-yard and plantation.
He then moved to Shreveport, Louisiana,
where he was Justice of the Peace and Police
Magistrate, and two years acting Mayor, and
also took a leading part in the affairs of State.,
He was appointed by the Shreveport Board
of Trade, and city of Shreveport, to represent
that city at Washington to obtain Federal
aid in improving Red river, and especially to
remove that fatal obstruction to navigation,
the great " Raft." For this purpose he spent
years in Washington, finally succeeding. It
is therefore due to his tact and skill that that
river was opened to navigation and commerce.
The ten years while he was in Washin
gton were especially fruitful of legislation
in the interests of the South, in all of which
he aided. He was instrumental in organizing
the Shreveport but the Santa Fe railroad system
soon claimed his services, and he was em-
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/706/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.