Richard Montgomery Gano Richard Montgomery Gano ( June 17 , 1830 – March 27 , 1913 ) was a physician , Protestant minister , and brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War . Early life . Richard Gano was born June 17 , 1830 near Springdale in Bourbon County , Kentucky , the son of John Allen Gano , who was the son of Gen . Richard M . Gano , veteran of the War of 1812 . John Allen Gano was a minister in the Disciples of Christ and was active in the Restoration Movement with Alexander Campbell and Barton W . Stone . The first General Richard Gano was the son of Rev . John Gano and Sarah Stites . ( Rev . John Gano was the first pastor of the First Baptist Church of New York City and was known as the " Fighting Chaplain " for his Revolutionary War exploits . He is also credited with having baptized George Washington in the Potomac River . ) Richard was baptized into the church at age ten , and at twelve he entered Bacon College in Harrodsburg , Kentucky ( Bacon was the progenitor of the University of Kentucky ) . He completed his course of studies at Bethany College in Bethany , Virginia ( now West Virginia ) about 1847 , and then attended Louisville Medical University in Louisville , Kentucky , from which he graduated in 1849 . Gano practiced medicine first in Kentucky , then in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ( including two years as physician to the Louisiana State Prison ) , until 1858 . He married Martha ( " Mattie " ) Jones Welch of Crab Orchard , Kentucky , March 15 , 1853 in Garrard County , Kentucky , and they had twelve children , nine of whom lived to adulthood . Martha was born October 8 , 1832 and died September 22 , 1895 in Dallas , Texas . Allene Stone Gano , mother of aviation billionaire Howard Hughes was General Gano ' s granddaughter . In 1859 , Gano moved his family to Grapevine Prairie , Texas , in northeast Tarrant County ( roughly on the present site of the Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport ) , and began farming and stockraising , as well as continuing to practice medicine . He was particularly interested in introducing Kentucky race horse breeds to Texas . He was soon involved in community efforts to pursue Comanche raiding parties , and was presented a sword for his efforts by local citizens . In 1860 , he was elected to the Texas legislature from Tarrant County , where he was active in debates on frontier defense and agricultural issues . Civil War . He resigned his seat early in 1861 to enter Confederate service and on June 1 was elected captain of the " Grapevine Volunteers " , a company of mounted riflemen he had raised . By early March 1862 , he had reorganized his unit into a partial cavalry squadron of two companies , which was mustered into direct Confederate service and was assigned to Col . John Hunt Morgan ' s 2nd Kentucky Cavalry at Chattanooga , Tennessee . Capt . Gano , commanding Company G , took part in Morgan ' s first Kentucky raid in July 1862 as well as Morgan ' s raid on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in August . During the latter campaign , he was promoted to major in command of a full cavalry squadron ( his original two companies plus a third company raised in Tennessee ) , which he led at the Battle of Gallatin . In September 1862 , Gano ' s squadron became the nucleus of the new 7th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and he was promoted to colonel in Gen . Morgan ' s new cavalry brigade . The regiment took part in all the actions of Gen . Edmund Kirby Smith ' s invasion of Kentucky in the fall of 1862 , culminating in the Battle of Perryville on October 8 , the Battle of Lexington on October 17 , and the retreat into east Tennessee . The 7th Kentucky Cavalry subsequently took part in Morgan ' s second Kentucky raid , December 1862 to January 1863 , and by February Gano ( though still a colonel ) was in command of the First Cavalry Brigade of Gen . Morgan ' s cavalry division . On April 3 , the brigade was attacked at Snows Hill , Tennessee by some 8 , 000 Union infantry and cavalry and was forced to withdraw to McMinnville . Shortly after this , Morgan ' s forces were essentially destroyed during Morgan ' s Raid , and the remnants rejoined Gano ' s depleted brigade . On September 18 , 1863 , Col . Gano commanded both his own brigade and Morgan ' s survivors under Gen . Nathan Bedford Forrest at the Battle of Chickamauga . Gano left active service for a period because of illness , then was promoted to brigadier general ( though he did not receive his " official " promotion until March 17 , 1865 ) and took the eighty - odd survivors of his original Texas cavalry unit ( now called the " Gano Guards " ) back to Bonham , Texas . There he assumed command , October 10 , 1863 , of all Texas cavalry operating in the Trans - Mississippi Department . On December 27 , Gano ' s brigade captured and occupied Waldron , Arkansas , and in April 1864 he suffered an arm wound at a skirmish at Moscow , Arkansas . Two months later , he commanded the attack on Fort Smith , Arkansas , and on July 27 , 1864 he led an attack on the 6th Kansas Cavalry at Massard Prairie , Arkansas . A few weeks later , Gano ' s brigade , with accompanying artillery , moved to Indian Territory and on September 19 he commanded both the Fifth Texas Cavalry Brigade ( made up of the 29th , 30th , and 31st Texas Cavalry and Howell ' s Artillery Battery ) and Brig . Gen . Stand Watie ' s First Indian Brigade ( consisting of Cherokee , Creek , and Seminole ) at the second Battle of Cabin Creek . ( His commission reportedly predated Stand Watie ' s by one month , putting him in command by seniority — but it also seems unlikely that his Texas troopers would have allowed themselves to be commanded by a Cherokee . ) In this action , the general was wounded again but Confederate forces totalling about 2 , 000 captured a federal supply train of some three hundred wagons and 750 mules , valued at more than two million dollars . In a congratulatory telegram , Gen . Kirby Smith called this " one of the most brilliant raids of the entire war " . In January 1865 , as part of a last reorganization of troops west of the Mississippi by Kirby Smith , the brigade was ordered to Nacogdoches , but on May 26 , the Army of the Trans - Mississippi surrendered to federal forces . Gano had been recommended for promotion to major general but the war ended before this could be acted upon . Postwar career . In 1866 , Gano returned to Kentucky , where he was ordained a minister in the Disciples of Christ by his father and by Winthrop Hobson of the Old Union Church . By 1870 , he had taken up residence in Dallas , where he resumed stockraising and preached regularly . Over the next thirty years , he was instrumental in establishing a number of churches , both in north Texas and in Kentucky , and was active in the Prohibition movement of the 1880s . As a stockman in the later 19th century , Gano imported a number of important bloodlines into Texas , including cattle , horses , sheep , and hogs . He also was a general businessman , forming a real estate company with two of his sons , and serving as a director of the Bankers and Merchants National Bank in Dallas . These involvements led to his becoming a millionaire . He also was active in United Confederate Veterans . With his sons , John T . Gano and Clarence M . Gano , he formed the Estado Land and Cattle Company , where he served as vice president . The company established the G4 Ranch in the Big Bend region of Texas in late 1880s and early 1890s . The G4 was one of the largest in the Trans - Pecos in that period . The G4 Ranch comprised 55 , 000 acres in survey Block G4 ( hence the name of the ranch ) and leased other watered sections nearby . Ranch headquarters were at Oak Spring or Ojo de Chisos , just west of the basin in what is now Big Bend National Park . The ranch extended from Agua Fria Mountain on the north to the Rio Grande on the south , and from Terlingua Creek on the west to the Chisos Mountains on the east ; it thus covered most of what is now southwestern Brewster County , Texas . The Ganos persuaded James B . Gillett to resign as marshal of El Paso to manage the ranch . This was land that had never been stocked ; at the time , recalled Gillett , " The Ganos had it all to themselves . " Richard Gano died March 27 , 1913 at his home at the corner of Cedar Springs and Oaklawn Avenue in Dallas and is buried in Oakland Cemetery . In 1974 , the " dog - trot " house he purchased at Grapevine Prairie in 1857 was moved to Dallas ' s Old City Park , which is located on Gano Street , named for Richard Gano . The house was originally built of logs and was later covered with white clapboard siding . Gen . Richard M . Gano Chapter # 2433 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy , Texas Division , meets in Irving , Texas . 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