Background
MARSHALL, Henry was born on December 28, 1805 in Darlington District, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of the wealthy merchant and planter Adam Marshall and his wife.
politician member of the Louisiana State Senate
MARSHALL, Henry was born on December 28, 1805 in Darlington District, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of the wealthy merchant and planter Adam Marshall and his wife.
Northern university.
He was a cousin of the Confederate general Maxcy Gregg. He was a Presbyterian and attended Union College in New York during the late 1820s. Sometime thereafter, he moved to Louisiana where he served in the state Senate before the Civil War.
Marshall also farmed in Mansfield, Louisiana, for some years before the war. He was a secessionist member of the Louisiana secession convention and a member of the provisional Confederate Congress, and he served on the Territories, Public Lands and Claims Committees, and on the Select Committee of Three to receive the tax. Marshall was elected to the first Confederate House, where his committee assignments included Claims, Quartermaster’s and Commissary Departments, Military Transport, Conference, Inauguration, Patents, and Territories and Public Lands.
He was anti-administration during both of his terms. Marshall refused to run for the second Congress and was replaced by Benjamin L. Hodge. He believed that the Davis government had not shown enough interest in saving southern Louisiana from the Union invasion.
Little else is known of his wartime career.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.