Thompson Breckenridge Flournoy (died 1861) was an American plantation owner and state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Desha County and served as Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives. He was a leader at the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Charleston and Baltimore.
He acquired land for a plantation in Desha County, Arkansas and moved there from Kentucky. He was one of the developers, using slave labor, of the levee system that became known as Laconia Circle Levee. [1]
He helped block efforts to repudiate the Compromise of 1850. [2] He supported the 1860 presidential ticket of Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson. He helped organize a regiment for the Confederate Army ( 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment). He lived in Laconia, Arkansas. [3]
He married twice and had children. An article on his family history was published. [4]
In May 1861 he was authorised along with three others to raise a regiment and head to Lynchburg, Virginia. [5] By January 16 1862 he had died and was listed at having died in Louisville, Kentucky. [6]
References
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ^ Woods, James M. (July 1, 1987). Rebellion and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to Secession. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9780938626596 – via Google Books.
- ^ Evans, Clement Anselm (December 8, 1899). "Confederate Military History: Dimitry, John; Louisiana. Harrell, J. M.; Arkansas". Confederate publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Flournoy Rivers (1896). "The Flournoy Family". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 4 (1): 97–101. JSTOR 4241942 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Thompson B. Flournoy to raise regiment". True Democrat. 2 May 1861. p. 2. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ "A List of the General Officers in the Armies of the Confederate States". True Democrat. 16 January 1862. p. 1. Retrieved 8 December 2023.