<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/hertford/bios/borland22.txt>
Euclid, a physican and Louisiana plantation owner with 101 slaves, eldest Rose, 107 y/o, in 1860, ---- was second of three sons born to Harriott Godwin and Dr Thomas Wood Borland of Suffolk, Virginia (formerly Nansemond county). Older brother Roscius Cicero, an attorney, died at Euclid's plantation northwest of Holly Springs, Mississippi in late 1847, younger brother was Solon also a physican, formerly Major U S A in Mexican War, a U S Senator from Arkansas, U S Minister to Nicaragua and Confederate Colonel whom Judiah Benjamin (a Mississippi plantation owner with 140 slaves, who left after war from Cape Sable, FL never to return) dressed down over his General Order issued November 29, 1861 placing an embargo on Arkansas grown foodstuffs (as was successfully done in Missouri) to feed his troops and prevent inflation while commander of Upper Arkansas, Western Department, Confederate States Army.