EAZLEY, WILLIAM HERBERT (1837-1919). William Herbert Beazley, Confederate Army and Navy officer, physician, and advisor to the Coushatta Indians, was born on October 30, 1837, six miles east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to A. G. A. and Mary Herbert (Washington) Beazley. When he was three years old, in 1840, the family moved to Texas. They lived in Smithfield, in what is now Polk County, across the Trinity River from the Logan league (see ace, texas). Beazley spent many of his early years working on his family's Logan-league plantation and operating a sailing vessel based at the site of present La Porte on Galveston Bay. On the Logan league he served as clerk, agent, and business manager for his uncle, Alexander Hamilton Washington,qv who operated the plantation