William Nelson Rector Beall was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
15 Facts About William Beall
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William Beall is most noted for his supply efforts on behalf of Confederate prisoners of war.
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William Beall's parents moved from Kentucky to Little Rock, Arkansas where Beall was raised.
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William Beall was promoted to first lieutenant and then shortly thereafter to captain with the First Cavalry.
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William Beall was involved in several skirmishes, combats, and expeditions against the Indian tribes in the West, primarily in Kansas.
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At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, William Beall resigned his commission and was appointed as a captain of cavalry in the Confederate Army.
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William Beall served in the Trans-Mississippi Department under General Earl Van Dorn early in the war and was appointed brigadier general in the spring of 1862.
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William Beall was placed in command of the Confederate cavalry forces at Corinth, Mississippi.
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William Beall then commanded a brigade of troops from Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
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At the Siege of Port Hudson, the Confederate forces surrendered on July 9,1863, and William Beall was taken as a prisoner of war.
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William Beall was imprisoned at Johnson's Island on Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio.
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In 1864, William Beall was appointed as a Confederate agent for the purpose of supplying Confederate prisoners of war and paroled for this purpose.
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William Beall established an office in New York City and sold cotton allowed through the Union blockade of southern ports.
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William Beall was finally released from Federal custody on August 2,1865.
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William Beall is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.