Thursday, October 31, 2024

Question: Besides Texas Supreme Court Justice Colbert Caldwell, who else did Gen. Philip Sheridan depose while he was the military commander of Texas?

Answer: Gov. James W. Throckmorton. Although Throckmorton voted against seceding from the Union, he served in the Confederate army as a brigadier general. Throckmorton’s lenient attitude toward former Confederates and lax enforcement of freedmen’s civil rights led to his removal by Sheridan, who labeled him an “impediment to the reconstruction of the State.”