TOURGEE, Albion Winegar (toor-zhay'), author, born in Williamsfield, Ohio, 2 Nay, 1838. He is the son of a farmer of Huguenot descent. After studying at, Rochester university in 1859-'61, he served in the National army in 1861-'5, was wounded at Bull Run and at Perryville, and was a prisoner in the hands of the Confederates for four months. After the war he settled as a lawyer, farmer, and editor at Greensboro', North Carolina He opposed the plan of reconstruction that was adopted, favoring instead the establishing of territorial governments in the seceding states. At the Loyalists' convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1866, he prepared the report on the condition of the southern states. He was an active member of the North Carolina constitutional conventions of 1868 and 1875, and was one of the commission appointed to codify and revise the state laws. In April, 1S68, he was elected judge of the superior court, for the seventh judicial district of North Carolina, his term expiring in 1874; and in February, 1876, he was appointed pension-agent for that state. His judicial district included the counties where the Ku-klux clan was most powerful and aggressive, and several unsuccessful raids were planned for his capture. In 1866-'7 he published at Greensboro' the "Union Register," and in 1882 he established "The Continent," a literary weekly, in Philadelphia, which was discontinued in 1885. He is well known as a lecturer, and has published "North Carolina Form-Book" (1869) ;" Toinette " (New York, 1874); "The North Carolina Code, with Notes and Decisions" (1878) ; "A Digest of Cited Cases " (1879); "Statutory Decisions of the North Carolina Reports" (1879) ; "Figs and Thistles" (1879);" A Fool's Errand, by one of the Fools." of which 135,000 copies were sold (1879): "Bricks without Straw" (1880) ; "Hot Plowshares" (1883); "An Appeal to Caesar" (1884): "Black Ice" (1887); and "Button's Inn" (Boston, 1887).