University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

Page 12 text:

BOARD OF REGENTS. T. M. Harwood, Gonzales, Gonzales county. R. K. CowART, Dallas, Dallas county. A.J. Starr, Marshall, Harrison county. G. W. Brackenridge, San Antonio, Bexar county T. D. WooTEN, Austin, Travis county. F. W. Ball, Fort Worth, Tarrant county. T. C. Thompson, Galveston, Galveston county. Wm. L. Prather, Waco, McLennan county.

Page 11 text:

GREETING. For many years the higher classes of the University of Texas have wished to produce an annual. At first it was talked about, then efforts grew more definite until last year almost beheld its birth. This year our Cactus greets you. She is the tender offspring of the Academic and Law Classes of ' 94, and there- fore to them dear. She is a first child and, as such, doubly dear. Adorned with her own sweet flower, she first leaves her Texas home to greet her elder brothers. The labor that has been expended, the anxious care of these, the pioneer editors are now forgotten, and we bid our Cactus God speed, hoping that to those she meets she may bring some knowledge of our college organizations and some savor of college cheer and college fun.

Page 13 text:

BIOGRAPHICAL. LESLIE WAGGENER. On September ii, 1841, I eslie Waggener first saw the light in Trenton, Todd connty, Ky. Passing over his early school days, we find him, in i860, a Senior in Harvard, having just gradu- ated in Bethel College, Russellville, Ky. Soon after taking his A. B., at Harvard, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army. He was left for dead on the field of Shiloh, but a negro boy, whom he had brought from home, found him and carried him to Corinth. His life was despaired of by the surgeon, but after some months he regained his health. Having rejoined his regiment, which had been changed in the meantime to the 9th Kentucky, Hanson ' s Brigade, Breckenridge ' s Division, Array of Tennessee, he took part in the expedition under John Morgan to Hartsville, Tenn. About this time he became second lieutenant in the company in which he had first enlisted. Dr. W. was at the battle of Chickamauga and was again wounded, though not se- verely. In the investment of Chattanooga and in the retreat from Missionary Ridge he was present, and while in winter quar- ters at Dal ton (1863-4) temporary appointment on the staff of Brigadier-General Lewis. Passing over the engagements at Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain and Peach Tree Creek, we find Dr. Waggener at Atlanta (July 226. and 28th) and at Jonesboro. His brigade having been almost destroyed at this latter place, its sur- vivors were mounted and went to increase the cavalry under Wheeler. When Johnston ' s army, which included them, sur- rendered. Dr. Waggener was adjutant of his regiment. In June, 1866, he arrived at his home in Russellville, Ky. June 27, 1867, Dr. Waggener was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Pendleton, of Uplands, Pa. Her father was James M.