Haywood County was associated with several Confederate colonels whose military and civilian careers extended across Tennessee and beyond. Alsey High Bradford (1822-1906) served as colonel of the 31st Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., later promoted a narrow gauge railroad, served on the School Board, and held other important city and county positions. Hiram Bradford was brevetted lieutenant colonel in the C.S.A. and served as adjutant general and chief of staff to Major General C. P. McCown; the Brownsville bivouac of the U.C.V. was named in his honor. William Lafayette Duckworth (1834-1915) was colonel of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A., and was also a farmer, educator, soldier, physician, Methodist minister, and district superintendent at the time of his death; in 1864 he formulated a successful plan to capture the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, U.S.A., at Union City. Benjamin J. Lea (1833-1894), colonel of the 52nd Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., was also a teacher, attorney, state legislator in 1859-60, attorney general from 1878-86, and chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. George C. Porter (1835-1919), colonel of the 6th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., was the ranking Tennessee Confederate veteran at the time of his death and also served as an attorney, state senator from 1871-74, state legislator from 1877-79, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1870, and president of the Board of Railroad Commissioners. Robert V. Richardson (1820-1870) served as a colonel in the Tennessee militia during the Mexican War, as a Brownsville attorney, and as colonel of the 12th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A.; he was appointed brigadier general in 1863, became a large landowner and vice president of the U.S. Cotton Company, and was assassinated in Duncan County, Missouri, on January 5, 1870.