Winfield Scott Featherston "Old Swet" (August 8, 1820 – May 28, 1891) was an antebellum two-term U.S. Representative from Mississippi and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

With the secession of Mississippi, Featherston was appointed to visit neutral Kentucky to try to influence Governor Beriah Magoffin into also leading his state from the Union.

With the start of the Civil War in May 1861, Featherston was appointed a captain of Confederate States Army infantry.

Featherston asked to be returned to his home state because of the growing Union Army threat there.

As with the rest of Loring's division, which had marched off on its own to join Joseph E. Johnston in Jackson rather than retreat towards Vicksburg.

Featherston returned to his law practice and later served as president of the state taxpayer's convention which protested against high taxes and wasteful government spending of carpetbagger Governor Adelbert Ames.

Featherston's wife Elizabeth and several of their children died in the Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic of 1878; four survived.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress