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William Trousdale

TROUSDALE, William, soldier, born in Sumner county, Tennessee, in 1790; died in Nashville, Tennessee, in March, 1872. He served as private and subsequently as lieutenant in the Creek war under General Andrew Jackson, participating in the battles of Tallahatchie and Talladega. During the latter part of the second war with Great Britain he took part in the capture of Pensacola and the battle of New Orleans. In 1836 he served in the Seminole difficulties as major-general of militia, During the war with Mexico he was a colonel of infantry, and engaged in all the battles in the valley of Mexico, being wounded at Molino del Rey, and again in the attack on Chapultepec. In 1849-'51 he was governor of Tennessee, and in 1853-'7 he was United States minister to Brazil. After that service he did not again enter public life.

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