CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: LESLIE WAGGENER 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
LESLIE WAGGENER

Leslie Waggener, of Austin, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, 
Sept. 11, 1841, the son of S. T. Waggener, a native of Culpeper 
county, Virginia.  He studied in Bethel College, and in 1861 was 
graduated from Harvard University in Massachusetts, with the degree 
of A.B.  A month later he joined the Confederate army as a private 
in Co. A, Ninth Kentucky Infantry, of the Army of Tennessee.  He 
was shot through the chest at Shiloh, and left upon the field, but 
was saved by a faithful negro servant, and was again slightly 
wounded at Chickamauga.  He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant 
and at one time served as adjutant of his regiment and assistant 
adjutant general of his brigade.  After the war he became professor 
of English in Bethel College, Tenn., and in 1876 was made president 
of the institution.  In 1883 he was elected professor of English 
in the University of Texas, being chosen seven times by the 
unanimous vote of his collegues.  He was the author of a work on 
the "English Sentence," one on Rhetoric and one on Literature.  He 
contributed many learned articles to leading American periodicals 
and enjoyed a national reputation as scholar and educator.  His 
efforts did much toward giving the University of Texas a place 
among the leading colleges of the nation.  He was married in 
Murfreesboro, Tenn., to Fannie, daughter of the Rev. James M. 
Pendleton, and the union was blessed with seven children.  He died 
a few years ago and is buried in Austin.