Francis A . Shoup Francis Asbury Shoup ( March 22 , 1834 – September 4 , 1896 ) , a lawyer from Indianapolis , Indiana , became a brigadier general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . Pre - war . Shoup was born near Laurel , Indiana , the first of nine children . He attended Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle , Indiana , and then went to the United States Military Academy , graduating in 1855 fifteenth out of a class of thirty - four . After leaving West Point , he served in the United States Army as a member of the First United States Artillery and fought against the Seminoles in Florida . He decided to retire on January 10 , 1860 , to become a lawyer in Indianapolis . Shoup was serving as a leader of an Indianapolis Zouave militia , but once the Civil War started , he moved to Florida to fight for the Confederacy , proclaiming he had " aristocratic inclinations and admiration for the South . " . This shocked those in the Indianapolis militia , who had loved him as friend , and even gave him a special set of revolver s with holsters and trappings , believing he would serve in the Union army , and that officers would always ride horses and thus would need such a set . All Indianapolis reported of the incident was that Shoup had resigned from the militia . In 1860 , he moved to St . Augustine , Florida , where the Governor commissioned him a Lieutenant . He was actually admitted to the bar in Florida , although whether he actually practiced law is obscure . War life . At the Battle of Shiloh , he served as chief of artillery under William J . Hardee . In the summer of 1862 he started serving in Arkansas as Inspector General under Major General Thomas C . Hindman . On September 12 , 1862 , the First Confederate Congress made him a brigadier general , after which he commanded Hindman ' s Second Division . After the Battle of Prairie Grove , he went back across the Mississippi River . After he was captured in the Battle of Vicksburg , he met some compatriots from his Indianapolis militia days , but they rejected him for fighting for the Confederacy . After he was paroled , he went to Georgia and fought in the Battle of Atlanta . He was the designer of the Shoupade design for fortifications along the Chattahoochee River , and advocated having blacks serving in the Confederate Army . During the war , he wrote texts on infantry and artillery drill . He also served as Chief of Staff for the commander of the Army of Tennessee , John Bell Hood . Post - war . After the war , Shoup became a professor at the , in Sewanee , Tennessee . He spent time as a professor at the University of Mississippi . Shoup was also an Episcopal rector and wrote books about mathematics and metaphysics . Upon his death on September 4 , 1896 , in Columbia , Tennessee , he was buried in the cemetery of University of the South . In 2006 the Indiana Historical Bureau , Franklin County Historical Society , and the Indiana Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans placed a historical marker honoring Shoup at Conwell Cemetery in Laurel , Indiana . Shoup Park and historical marker is also located on the campus of the University of the South ( Sewanee , Tennessee ) .