was visiting his friend and political ally Samuel L. M. Barlow I, a former Louisiana State Senator. Taylor's body was returned to Louisiana for burial at Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans. Family Richard Taylor was the only son of Margaret Mackall Smith and President Zachary Taylor. His sister Sarah Knox Taylor was the first wife of Jefferson Davis, but died of illness in 1835, three months after their marriage. His sister Mary Elizabeth, who had married William Wallace Smith Bliss in 1848, served as her father's White House hostess. Although Taylor chose to serve the Confederacy, his uncle, Joseph Pannell Taylor, served in the Union Army as a Brigadier-General. Richard and Marie (née Bringier) Taylor had five children, two sons and three daughters: Louise, Elizabeth, Zachary, Richard, and Myrthe. Their two sons died of scarlet fever during the war, losses that affected both parents deeply. Legacy The Lt. General Richard Taylor Camp #1308, Sons of Confederate Veterans in Shreveport, Louisiana, is named for General Taylor; the camp was chartered in 1971. Jackson B. Davis, a former state senator from Shreveport, wrote a biographical article about Taylor that was published in 1941. A full-length biography, T. Michael Parrish's, Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, was published in 1992. Works Taylor, Richard. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War. J.S. Sanders & Co., 2001 [1879]. . First published 1879 by D. Appleton. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Notes References Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . Parrish, T. Michael. Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. . Prushankin, Jeffery S. A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. . Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . Winters, John D. The Civil War in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. . External links Richard Taylor in the Handbook of Texas Online 1826 births 1879 deaths American slave owners Harvard College alumni Louisiana state senators Children of presidents of the United States Confederate States Army lieutenant generals Politicians from Louisville, Kentucky American military personnel of the Mexican–American