Orleans-Plaquemines County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....BORLAND, General Euclid February 7, 1844 - September 26, 1896 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Boggess william-boggess@webtv.net June 2, 2006, 7:36 am Author: D N Barrow,Baton Rouge Source: Memoirs of Louisiana [1892] pub. The Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago   General Euclid Borland by D N Barrow of Baton Rouge Hon. Euclid Borland, brigadier-general of the Louisiana State National Guard, is a native of Mississippi, born in Marshall county, February 7, 1844. He is the son of Dr. Euclid Borland, a native of Suffolk, VA, and his wife Elizabeth Rebecca Moore, a native of Hertford county, NC. The paternal great-grandparents of our subject were Robert Borland and Margaret Jack of Scotland, and his grandparents, Dr. Thomas Wood Borland, born in Scotland, and Harriott Godwin, his wife, a native of Nansemond county VA. His maternal grandparents, Augustus Moore and Martha M. Ramsay, were from Hertford county, NC. Euclid Borland, our subject, was taken from Mississippi to Plaquemines parish, LA, in 1847, and in 1850 his mother died, when he was taken to his uncle Solon Borland [M D & U S Senator], at Hot Springs, Ark., and in 1851 to his great-uncle George Godwin at Suffolk, VA. In 1852 his father married a cousin, Lucy Wilkinson, of Norfolk VA, daughter of Commodore Wilkinson, and Euclid returned to Louisiana. He attended school in Suffok and Norfolk in 1853 and 1854, and entered Bolmar's school at West Chester, PA in 1855. In 1858 he went to Webster's Military academy at Portsmouth VA and in 1859 to Bloomfield academy, Albemarle county VA, but left there early in 1861 and went to a special session at the Virginia Military institute at Lexington VA prior to going into the confederate service. In July 1861, he joined the Old Dominion guards of Portsmouth VA and August 6 1861 was elected sergeant of what was afterward Company E, Sixth Virginia veteran volunteers, Mahone's brigade. In 1862 he was made color-corporal, and as such was severely wounded at Malvern Hill, and Second Manassas. Subsequently he became color-bearer of the regiment, and in 1863 was promoted to second lieutenant of his company. On June 22, 1864, Lieut. Borland in the charge on Grant's works in front of Petersburg, captured a stand of colors, and his captain being killed in the action he was promoted to captain of his company, not yet being twenty-one years of age. During the war he was in twelve of Lee's pitched battles and was struck altogether six times, five times by balls and once by a fragment of a shell. In the fall of 1865 he went to the University of Virginia and studied a mixed course of academics and law, and in the summer of 1867 visited the exposition in Paris, and made a tour of the Rhine and part of Switzerland. In the spring of 1868 he left the University of Virginia and went to Europe for an extended tour, taking in the British Isles, the Continent, Egypt, Arabia to Mount Sinai, traveling through the Holy Land on horseback, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Poland, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, around the North Cape, visited Tangiers,, Africa, and was in Rome during the sitting of the Ecumenical council. Upon first going to Europe he studied some time in Paris, and returning there was driven out by the German investment of 1870. Mr. Borland returned home and planted cane one year, and in 1872 went into business in New Orleans.    He assisted in raising a company in 1873, which he commanded on September 14, 1874 when the Kellogg government was deposed. As major of his regiment he helped to install Nicholls as governor in 1876 and was made colonel of his regiment, resigning when order was restored and the reconstruction era a thing of the past. In 1878 he went into the cotton business and in 1879 became a partner in the firm of Frankenbush & Borland, cotton factors and commission merchants, still doing business.    In 1874 Mr. Borland married Miss Charlotte Willcocks McCall, daughter of Richard McCall of Ascension parish LA. His wife died in 1885, leaving him two daughters, Olive and Elizabeth. He always took a lively interest in politics, but never was a candidate for office until 1888, when he was elected to the legislature from the Tenth district. That same year he was elected as the democratic presidential elector for his district. He was during two sessions chairman of the committee on ways and means of the Louisiana house of representatives. In 1889 he was appointed colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Nicholls, and in 1891 was promoted to brigadier-general of the Louisiana state national guards, to command the first brigade, that is the New Orleans brigade. General Borland resides at 260 Philip street, in what is known as the garden district of New Orleans. He still owns his father's old sugar plantation in Plaquemines parish and ancestral acres in and near Memphis TN. He also owns a farm in Nansemond county VA, that belonged to his father, and has been in the family for over 100 years. He recently restored the old mansion on it. He owns property in Hertford county NC heired through his mother from his great-grandfather, Mr. Hal. Ramsey. General Borland's father died in 1881. The General is a member of the following clubs and organizations: The Pickwick, Military, Variete, French Opera, Southern Athletic, Southern Yacht, Benevolent association of the Army of Northern Virginia, Louisiana Historical society, Cotton exchange, vice-president of the Louisiana Land and Fishery company, and a director of the Home Insurance company. A man of profound erudition, he impresses one as a man of great strength, depth and grasp of mind, and his leading characteristics are extreme frankness, honesty of purpose, indomitable will and integrity."   Additional Comments: General Euclid Borland died at his close friend and cousin's, Thomas Roscius Cicero Borland's (later the U S Attorney for Eastern Virginia, under President Harrison), home in Norfolk, Virginia Septmber 26, 1896, buried with Eucid Borland's family in Ramsey cemetery, Hertford county, North Carolina This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 6.3 Kb