Governor White was a man of great eccentricity of character, but with
a ripe intellect, and a heart overflowing with generous emotions and
tenderness. He loved his kind, and his life was most unselfishly
devoted to their service. Like all who have for any time made her
their home, he loved Louisiana first of all things. He was too young
when coming from his native land to remember it, and his first
attachment was for the soil of his adoption. He was reared in the
midst of the Creole population of the State; spoke French and Spanish
as his mother-tongue, and possessed the confidence and affection of
these people in a most remarkable degree.
Governor White was a passenger on board the ill-fated steamer Lioness,
in company with many friends, among whom were Josiah S. Johnston, (the
elder brother of A. Sidney Johnston, who fell at the battle of
Shiloh,) and Judge Boyce, of the District Court. Josiah S. Johnston
was, at the time, a Senator in Congress. Some miles above the mouth of
Red River, and in that stream, the boat blew up, many of the
passengers being killed, among whom was Judge Johnston.
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