Hiram B . Granbury Hiram Bronson Granbury ( March 1 , 1831 – November 30 , 1864 ) was a lawyer and county judge in Texas before the American Civil War ( " Civil War " ) . He organized a volunteer company for the Confederate States Army after the outbreak of the Civil War and became its captain . He rose to the grade of brigadier general in the Confederate army . Granbury was one of the six Confederate generals killed at the Battle of Franklin on November 30 , 1864 . Early life . Hiram Bronson Granbury was born in Copiah County , Mississippi , March 1 , 1831 . He was the son of a Baptist minister . He was born Hiram Granberry , but upon reaching adulthood , by 1852 Granberry had changed the spelling of his name to Granbury . After being educated at Oakland College in Rodney , Mississippi , he moved to Waco , Texas , in the early 1850s . Granbury studied law at Baylor University in Waco , was admitted to the bar and served as chief justice of McLennan County , TX , an office similar to the chairman of a county board of supervisors , from 1856 to 1858 . Civil War service . Fort Donelson , capture , exchange . Upon the secession of Texas from the Union , Granbury organized the Waco Guards , a volunteer infantry company , and headed east to Kentucky with them as their first captain . In October 1861 , he was elected major of the 7th Texas Infantry Regiment . He was captured along with his regiment at the Battle of Fort Donelson on February 16 , 1862 . Granbury was imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor but was permitted to visit Baltimore on parole in order to attend to his wife , who was to have an operation . He was freed in an exchange of prisoners on August 27 , 1862 for two lieutenants . Almost immediately , on August 29 , 1862 , Granbury was promoted to colonel of the 7th Texas Infantry Regiment . He was temporarily without a command until January 1863 because the 7th Texas Infantry Regiment was not exchanged until November 1862 and was consolidated with two other regiments until January 1863 . Vicksburg campaign , Chattanooga , Chickamauga , Atlanta campaign . Granbury and his regiment served in north Mississippi with General Joseph E . Johnston ’ s Army of Tennessee during the Vicksburg Campaign . Colonel Granbury led the regiment in the battles of Raymond and Jackson . Granbury fought and was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga . He then participated in the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Missionary Ridge . When Brigadier General James Argyle Smith was wounded at Chattanooga , Granbury led the brigade in the retreat from Chattanooga . Division commander , Major General Patrick R . Cleburne , commended Colonel Granbury for his handling of the brigade . Battle of Franklin , death . Brigadier General James A Smith returned to the brigade command for the Atlanta Campaign . At about the same time , on February 29 , 1864 , Colonel Granbury was promoted to brigadier general . He then led the Texas brigade . This brigade was composed of eight ( 8 ) understrength Texas regiments , including the 7th Texas Infantry , through the Atlanta Campaign . He fought with particular distinction at the Battle of New Hope Church in the Atlanta Campaign . General John B . Hood had taken over command of the Army of Tennessee during the Atlanta Campaign . After the fall of Atlanta , Hood moved his army into Tennessee in an effort to retake Nashville for the Confederacy . At the Battle of Franklin on November 30 , 1864 , Hood ordered 18 brigades to make numerous hopeless frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union Army forces under Major General John M . Schofield . Granbury ’ s brigade charged the center of the Federal breastworks and he was killed , along with Major General Patrick R . Cleburne , just outside the Union works . In total , six Confederate generals died in or as a result of the battle . Brigadier General James A . Smith took command of Cleburne ' s division at the subsequent Battle of Nashville . Reburial at Granbury , Texas . Twenty - nine ( 29 ) years after the battle of Franklin , Hiram Granbury ' s body was moved to Granbury , Texas , a town named after him .