Moses Wright Hannon Moses Wright Hannon ( December 14 , 1827 – June 3 , 1897 ) was a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War . In August 1864 , he was assigned to duty as an acting brigadier general by General John Bell Hood , subject to appointment by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and confirmation by the Confederate Senate . Although Hannon commanded a brigade in the cavalry corps of the Army of Tennessee and in Major General Joseph Wheeler ' s cavalry corps from June 1864 until the end of the war , he never was officially appointed by Jefferson Davis and confirmed by the Confederate Senate to brigadier general rank . Early life . Moses Wright Hanson was born in Baldwin County , Georgia on December 14 , 1827 . His parents were John and Elizabeth ( Wright ) Hannon . After being raised in Georgia , in 1847 , Hannon joined his older brothers at Montgomery , Alabama , where he became a wealthy merchant . He married Caroline Mastin of a prominent local family . Hannon and his family moved to California in 1850 and returned to Montgomery in 1858 . American Civil War service . Moses Wright Hannon was elected captain of a company of the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment when the Civil War began . He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on December 3 , 1861 . He fought with his regiment at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6 – 7 , 1862 . On November 5 , 1862 , Hannon became colonel of the 53rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment ( Partisan Rangers ) , which he had raised . The regiment performed guard duty around Tuscumbia , Alabama until April 1863 when it was assigned to the cavalry brigade of then Colonel Philip Roddey under then Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest in northern Alabama . Hannon ' s regiment was transferred to the Army of Tennessee on August 15 , 1863 and fought at the Battle of Chickamauga , September 19 – 20 , 1863 . On December 16 , 1863 , Hannon resigned as colonel of the regiment for reasons now unknown but he revoked the resignation the following month . During the Atlanta campaign , starting in April 1864 , Hannon commanded a small brigade in the division of Brigadier General William Y . C . Humes and , starting in June 1864 , the division of Brigadier General John H . Kelly in Major General Joseph Wheeler ' s cavalry corps . He also commanded Kelly ' s division occasionally . In August 1864 , Hannon ' s brigade raided Union Army supply lines around Atlanta , Georgia . With 300 men , Hannon attacked a Union Army wagon train and seized over 1 , 000 cattle . General John Bell Hood , then in command of the Confederate army defending Atlanta , was so pleased with the additional meat supply for his army that he promoted Hannon to acting brigadier general , subject to appointment and confirmation by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Senate . Hannon ' s brigade was part of Wheeler ' s force which opposed Major General William T . Sherman ' s March to the Sea and Carolinas Campaign . Hannon was wounded again at the Battle of Monroe ' s Crossroads , near Kinston , North Carolina on March 10 , 1865 and was disabled for the remainder of the war . Although Hannon was assigned to duty by Hood as an acting brigadier general in August 1864 , he never received a commission and there is no record of an official appointment from Jefferson Davis or confirmation by the Confederate Senate of Hannon ' s appointment as a general officer . Major General Wheeler later wrote that he had been told unofficially by Confederate States War Department officials that brigadier general commissions had been issued for Hannon , Henry Marshall Ashby and James Hagan near the end of the war , but no such commissions ever were delivered . Hannon stated that he was a colonel in his pardon application but he was signing letters as a former brigadier general in the Confederate service by 1876 and " general " appears on his tombstone . Aftermath . After the war , Hannon again engaged in business as a merchant at Montgomery and at New Orleans . In 1870 , he moved to Freestone County , Texas where he was a planter until at least 1883 . Finally , he moved to Leon County , Texas . Moses Wright Hannon died on June 3 , 1897 at Oakwood , Leon County , Texas . He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Leon County , Texas .