Gideon Johnson Pillow
Gideon Johnson Pillow was a wealthy and influential American lawyer, politician, landowner and speculator, slaveowner, United States Army major general of volunteers during the MexicanAmerican War and Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War. Pillow had several disputes and rivalries with fellow officers during both wars.
Pillow was born on June 8, 1806 in Williamson County, Tennessee, to Gideon Pillow and Ann Payne Pillow. He came from a well connected, property owning family with a reputation for Indian fighting and loyalty to Andrew Jackson. He graduated from the University of Nashville in 1827 and practiced law in Columbia, Tennessee, according to some sources as a partner of future President James K. Polk. Regardless whether Pillow and Polk were partners, they became friends. Pillow married Mary Elizabeth Martin, March 24, 1831.
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