Draft:Texas Angel

Angel first enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War, serving in Company I of the 27th New York Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Henry Warner Slocum. He and his Company participated in the First Battle of Bull Run, and then afterwards the Battle of West Point, and then at the Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Gaines' Mill. The Company was also at White Oak Swamp and guarded the right flank of the Union army at the Battle of Malvern Hill.^[1][2][3]

When the company returned to Harrison's Landing, Angel became ill and was taken to the West Philadelphia Hospital. After a brief period of illness, he rejoined his company and fought several more battles, like the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of South Mountain. After the Battle of Antietam, Angel was appointed Second Commissary Lieutenant and later First lieutenant of the Company. During the march from Antietam to Fredericksburg, at Falmouth, he was appointed quartermaster of the regiment, a position which he served for two years until May 21, 1863. Until May 1864, he served in the recruiting service.^[1][2][3]

After the Civil War, Angel went west in May 1864 by way of the Isthmus of Panama before arriving in San Francisco. He began reading law with Samuel M. Wilson, and was admitted to the bar in Sacramento by April 3, 1866. That same year, he returned to his hometown in New York, where he established a law office in Jamestown. A year later, he moved to Wisconsin and practiced law in the newly established Eau Claire for ten years, from 1867 until 1877.^[1][2]

In the 1870s, he served as an alderman of the sixth ward of the first city council in Eau Claire.^[4][5] Later, he served as district attorney of Eau Claire County during these years, succeeding Henry Cousins, a position which he served from 1872 to 1873, being succeeded by William Francis Bailey.^[4] He would later spend half of his year practicing in a law partnership with Levi M. Vilas, who was a brother of Senator William F. Vilas.^[1][6]

As his wife became sick, Angel was compelled to seek a warmer climate and settled in San Francisco, California in 1877, where he practiced law for five years. In 1881, he and his family settled in the newly established Hailey, Idaho, where they resided for the rest of his life. There, he served the first eight years practicing law alongside Isaac N. Sullivan as his law partner under the firm Angel & Sullivan before Sullivan became Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.^[1][2][7]

In 1894, he was nominated by acclamation as an associate justice of the Idaho Supreme Court representing the Populist Party, but would later withdraw from his candidacy a few weeks later.^[8][9] He would later reconsider and return to candidacy because he wanted to have no vacancies in the candidacy.^[10][11] The position would later be succeeded by Joseph W. Huston.

Later, by 1897, Angel would run as a candidate to serve as the U.S. senator from Idaho representing the Populists. A round of balloting saw Angel receiving 24 votes, one less than the incumbent senator Fred Dubois.^[12][13] At the final round of balloting, at the 1897 United States Senate election in Idaho, when Henry Heitfeld became the next U.S. senator from Idaho, Angel received one vote.^[14]

Afterwards, he continued practicing thereafter until his death, partnering with his eldest son, Richard M. Angel, in the practice of law.^[7] Angel died in his residence in Hailey on April 5, 1903, after a paralysis a week before and suffered two strokes at the day of his death.^[6][15]