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Dr. W. W. Westmoreland, was born near Union, in Greene County, Ala., September 20, 1846, and died at Columbus, Miss., April 7, 1922. In 1863 he became a student in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, which was semimilitary in character. In 1864 a detachment of the student body was called into active service in South Alabama. Returning to Tuscaloosa, he was present when General Coxton attacked the town, and with the University forces fell back to Marion, Ala., then the headquarters fo General Forrest after the battle of Selma, April 2, 1865; and surrendered at Gainesville. After the war he studied dentistry, graduating from the Baltimore (Md.) Dental College, and for many years he did an extensive practice througout East Mississippi and West Alabama. He was prominent in the Mississippi Dental Association, and was for one term Vice President of the National Association. In 1919 he was called to the University to receive his diploma after a lapse of fifty-four years. (W. A. Love.)
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, August, 1922.
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