senior Twiggs was the namesake for Twiggs County, Georgia. He was the nephew, through his mother, of David Emanuel, Governor of Georgia. Twiggs volunteered...

Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion. The son of Marion Twiggs (daughter of General David E. Twiggs) and West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, later...

during World War II Geography Twiggs County, Georgia Twiggs, West Virginia People with the surname Twiggs: David E. Twiggs (1790–1862), US soldier during...

David E. Twiggs surrendered all the American forces (about 4,000 men, including Lee, and commander of the Department of Texas) to the Texans. Twiggs immediately...

Obaisi, Matt Hardy and David Ortiz among others. Henry David Thoreau, famous Transcendental philosopher and author. David E. Twiggs, U.S. Army general who...

Romulo Diaz de la Vega.: 264  Scott's leading division, commanded by David E. Twiggs, reached the Cerro Gordo Pass on April 12.: 263  On April 12, Lieutenant...

the right wing of the army. The 2nd Brigade was commanded by Colonel David E. Twiggs and was the left wing. Taylor defeated the Mexican army at the battles...

David Twiggs was given command of the regiment from COL William S. Harney, and he was lauded for his bravery at the Battle of Monterrey. COL Twiggs commanded...

United States Army Brevet Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs surrendered the arsenal peacefully to the secessionists. Twiggs was appointed a major general in the...

along the Tacubaya Road,: 313  but Casey was replaced by Major Levi Twiggs. Only Twiggs' division and Bennett Riley's brigade were left on the American right...

left, Taylor, with a force of 2,300 men and 400 wagons, placed Col. David E. Twiggs with Lt. Col. James S. McIntosh's 5th Infantry and Maj. Samuel Ringgold's...

surrendered in February 1861 to state forces by its commanding general, David E. Twiggs, who then joined the Confederacy. As Southerners resigned their seats...

Sarah Lowe Twiggs (pen name, S. L. Twiggs; March 29, 1839 – February 7, 1920) was an American poet. She was also employed by the Department of the Interior...

Stephen Twigg (born 25 December 1966) is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the 8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary...

Texas considered whether to secede from the United States, General David E. Twiggs, commander of federal troops in Texas negotiated with state leaders...

governor. He was in the vanguard of the movement inland under Brig. Gen. David E. Twiggs and was severely wounded by grapeshot performing reconnaissance before...

8th Infantry Regiment. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, David E. Twiggs, the Commander of the Department of Texas, ordered the garrison to...

2012), 649–71. Bauer, K. Jack, The Mexican–American War, 1846–48 Nevin, David; editor, The Mexican War (1978) Alcaraz, Ramon et al. Apuntes Para la Historia...

In February 1850, Major General David E. Twiggs named Fort Myers for his future son-in-law; Myers married Marion Twiggs before 1861. After accepting the...

Pedregal during the night so Scott could coordinate a diversion using Twiggs.: 294  Twiggs did so at 5 AM, just as Smith struck Valencia from the rear.: 295 ...

to Washington, D.C., in March 1861. In February 1861, Brig. Gen. David E. Twiggs was dismissed from the Army for treason by outgoing U.S. President...

1849, the Army returned to the Caloosahatchee River in 1850. Major David E. Twiggs, then stationed at Fort Brooke (present day-Tampa), gave orders for...

biologist David Tweed, Australian businessman David Tweh (born 1998), Liberian footballer David E. Twiggs (1790–1862), American army officer David Twohill...

Bongard, David L., Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography, Castle Books, 1992, 1st Ed., ISBN 0-7858-0437-4. Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil...

the Headquarters for Texas military affairs. At this site, General David E. Twiggs surrendered $1,600,000 in federal property to the forces of Confederate...

in command of Fort Brown, Texas, and refused the order of Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs, a southern sympathizer, to surrender to the newly established Confederate...

Confederates named the uncompleted structure Fort Twiggs after Confederate General David E. Twiggs. The island later became a prison for Confederate prisoners...

U.S. Volunteers. At the war's end, McCulloch scouted for Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs, but joined the rush to the California gold fields in 1849. While he...

American commanders, including William J. Worth, Gideon Pillow, and David E. Twiggs, portraying them as mostly incompetent soldiers, who were little more...

are within about 10 names of each other. A recent compilation by John and David Eicher show most historians who have studied the number have concluded that...