Richard Montgomery Gano

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Richard Montgomery Gano

Richard Montgomery Gano (born June 17, 1830 in Springdale , Bourbon County , Kentucky , † March 27, 1913 in Dallas , Texas ) was a Brigadier General of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

Gano was the son of John Allen and Mary Catherine Gano, b. Conn. He was a grandson of Richard M. Gano , a general in the British-American War of 1812. Gano studied first at Bethany College in Virginia , then at Louisville Medical University in Louisville , Kentucky, where he graduated in 1849. He initially practiced in Kentucky, but then moved to Baton Rouge , Louisiana , where he continued to work as a resident doctor and was responsible for the medical needs of the Louisiana State Prison. In 1853 he married Martha Jones Welch, with whom he had twelve children, nine of whom reached adulthood. In 1859 he moved to the area of Grapevine in Tarrant County , Texas , on the site of today's Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport , where he also worked as a farmer, winemaker and politician. Among other things, he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1860 onwards.

When the civil war broke out, Gano joined the army of the southern states and became captain and company commander of the Grapevine Volunteers , a company of volunteers he founded. In March 1862 these were combined with another company to form a cavalry squadron and placed under Colonel John Hunt Morgan . In the following years Gano was promoted to major and commanded three cavalry companies, which he led in the Battle of Gallatin . In September 1862 they became part of the 7th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and Gano was promoted to colonel. This was followed by General Edmund Kirby Smith taking part in the Battle of Perryville on October 8th.

In February 1863, Gano was given command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade. On September 19 and 20, 1863, he took part in the Battle of Chickamauga under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest . On March 17, 1865, he was promoted to Brigadier General.

After the war, Gano returned to Kentucky and, like his father, became a clergyman in the Old Union Church . From 1870 he was employed in Dallas, where he did his church work and gave sermons regularly. For the next 30 years he served in various churches in both Kentucky and Texas, was also a businessman, founded a trading company with two of his sons, became vice president of the Estado Land and Cattle Company and director of the Bankers and Merchants National Bank in Dallas. All these activities made him a millionaire and allowed him to participate actively in the United Confederate Veterans , a national society for former Confederate soldiers, and to stand up for their interests.

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher: The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography . University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
  • Richard N. Current: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy . (4 vol.), 1993, ISBN 0-13-275991-8 .
  • John H. Eicher, David J. Eicher: Civil War High Commands . Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
  • Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders . Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

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SURNAME Gano, Richard Montgomery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confederate General in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH near Springdale , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1913
Place of death Dallas , Texas