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Birth name | Samuel Wragg Ferguson |
Born | Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. | November 3, 1834
Died | February 3, 1917 Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 82)
Buried | Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. 32°18′29.5″N 90°11′02.3″W / 32.308194°N 90.183972°W |
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Alma mater | United States Military Academy |
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Children | 4 |
Brigadier-General Samuel Wragg Ferguson (November 3, 1834 – February 3, 1917) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded cavalry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the civil war, Ferguson served as a member of the Mississippi River Commission.[1]