CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  DAVID B. CULBERSON - Jefferson, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

DAVID B. CULBERSON

David B. Culberson, of Jefferson, was born in Troup county, Georgia, 
September 29, 1830. He was educated at Brownwood Institute, La Grange, Ga., 
and in 1848-49 read law at Tuskegee, Ala., in the law school of Wm. P. 
Chilton, then Chief Justice of Alabama. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 
and six years later removed to Upshur county, Texas. He was a member of the 
Texas legislature of 1859-60. In 1861 he was chosen, upon the outbreak of 
the war, lieutenant-colonel of the 18th Texas Infantry and the next year was 
promoted Colonel. Early in 1864 his health became so impaired that he was 
assigned to duty at Austin as Adjutant-General of Texas. After the war he 
again took up his law practice, winning fame and money. He was elected a 
state senator in 1874, and the following year was elected to congress, of 
which he was a member twenty-two consecutive years.  He was known as the 
ablest constitutional lawyer in congress and was famous throughout the 
union.  Col. Culberson was married in Dadeville, Ala., December 8, 1852, to 
Miss Eugenia Kimball.  Only two of their children survive:  Charles A. 
Culberson, who was governor of Texas for four years, and is now U. S. 
Senator from this state; and Robert U. Culberson, of San Antonio, formerly 
U. S. district attorney.  Col. Culberson died in 1900 and lies buried by the 
side of his wife in Jefferson, Texas.