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Decimus et Ultimus Barziza (also known as D.U. Barziza and Decimus Barziza) (September 4, 1838 in Williamsburg, Virginia – January 30, 1882 in Houston, Texas) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician, who served two terms in the Texas Legislature == Early life == Barziza was born in Virginia in 1838. His father, Phillip Ignatius Barziza (originally Filippo Ignazio Barziza), was a viscount who had emigrated from Venice in 1820 and been forced to cede his title of nobility and become an American citizen in order to legally qualify for a bequest;〔(The Story Of Decimus Et Ultimus Barziza ), at the ''Daily Press''; by Parke Rouse; published May 9, 1993; retrieved December 30, 2013〕 he subsequently married a French-Canadian woman, with whom he had ten children.〔(Decimus et Ultimus Barziza ), by R. Henderson Shuffler; in the ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly''; vol. 66, no. 4 (July 1962 – April 1963); page 501-512〕 The Barzizas named their tenth child "Decimus et Ultimus", Latin for "tenth and last".〔(Italians and the American Civil War ), by Valentino J. Belfiglio; in ''Italian Americana''; Vol. 4, No. 2 (SPRING/SUMMER 1978), pp. 163-175〕 Barziza attended the College of William and Mary in his hometown of Williamsburg from 1854-1857. He then moved to Texas and later in 1857 enrolled in the law school at Baylor University. He graduated in 1859 and established his law practice in Owensville.〔(BARZIZA, DECIMUS ET ULTIMUS ) at the Texas State Historical Association; by Jeffrey William Hunt; retrieved December 31, 2013〕 In 1861, the American Civil War began, and Barziza enlisted in the Confederate Army (4th Texas Infantry), where he served under Louis Wigfall and John Bell Hood.〔(Sons of Garibaldi in Blue and Gray: Italians in the American Civil War ), by Frank W. Alduino and David J. Coles; published 2007 by Cambria Press〕 He was twice injured in combat, and fought in the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was captured at Little Round Top.〔 After spending a year in hospital as a prisoner of war, he escaped by leaping out the window of a moving prisoner-transport train in the middle of the night, and walking to Upper Canada, where Confederate sympathizers relayed him to Nova Scotia, and then Bermuda; there, a blockade runner returned him to North Carolina.〔 From North Carolina, he was able to return to Texas, where he wrote his memoirs of captivity and of life as a fugitive, titled ''The Adventures of a Prisoner of War, and Life and Scenes in Federal Prisons: Johnson's Island, Fort Delaware, and Point Lookout, by an Escaped Prisoner of Hood's Texas Brigade''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Decimus et Ultimus Barziza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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