Harry H . Johnson Harry Hubbard Johnson ( 11 April 1895 – 6 August 1987 ) was a United States army officer . He was born in Glenflora , Texas , six miles from his later hometown of Eagle Lake , Texas . He was the only son of Harry Stafford Johnson ( September 17 , 1873 Columbus , Texas - April 21 , 1956 Eagle Lake , Texas ) and Annie Bell Hubbard ( Oct 14 , 1873 Sealy , Texas - December 24 , 1908 Eagle Lake , Texas ) . His mother Annie died in 1908 when he was 13 . His father later married Mamie Eggar ( January 28 , 1891 Corpus Christie , Texas - January 2 , 1962 Runge , Texas ) on January 28 , 1912 . They had three children : Robert Ellen Johnson ( 1913 - October , 1916 ) , Frank Marshall Johnson ( February 15 , 1915 - January 31 , 1976 ) , and Richard Wayne Johnson ( November 11 , 1917 - November 1 , 1919 ) . World War I . He attended Texas A & M College to study agriculture , but transferred to Tyler Community College after 2 years . He later graduated from Tyler with a degree in accounting in May , 1916 . He attended the Officer Training Course at Leon Springs , Texas in May , 1917 and was assigned to the Aviation Ground School in Austin , Texas . When the call went out for recruits to fight in Europe , Johnson dropped out of flight school and enlisted in the Texas National Guard in August 10 , 1917 . Johnson was sent to Camp Bowie in Fort Worth , Texas on August 23 , 1917 , where he was made a Sergeant on September 7 , 1917 with Company E , 141st Infantry , 36th Division . He was promoted to Second Lieutenant on December 2 , 1917 and commissioned on December 28 , 1917 . He was transferred to Camp Bullis and was promoted to First Lieutenant on June 11 , 1918 . Johnson served with the 26th Infantry Regiment , 1st Infantry Division in France . He left France on August 23 , 1919 on board the transport USS Marcia and arrived at Brooklyn , New York on September 2 , 1919 . He was Honorably Discharged on 16 October 1919 but failed to get a commission in the Officer ' s Reserve Corps . Interwar Years . On August 9 , 1920 he was commissioned in the Texas National Guard as a first lieutenant in the 3rd Texas Cavalry . He also had a job as a commissary foreman for the Gulf Production company . In January 1921 he was promoted to Captain in the 56th Cavalry Brigade , Texas National Guard and worked as an oil salesman for Gulf . From 1929 to 1940 he served with the 124th Cavalry Regiment . In October 1941 he was given command of the 112th Cavalry Regiment . World War II . In 1941 - 1942 he commanded the 7th and 8th Cavalry Regiments , 2nd Cavalry Brigade , 1st Cavalry Division . In 1942 - 1943 he commanded the 56th Cavalry Brigade . In 1943 he was promoted to Brigadier General . In 1944 he was promoted to Major General and made commander of the all - black 2nd Cavalry Division , which was dismounted and performed various service and support functions in the North African Campaign from February , 1943 to May , 1944 . On June 5 , 1944 , he was appointed by President Roosevelt as the Military Governor of Rome . From August 1944 to September 1945 he was made commander of the all - black 93rd Infantry Division which performed service and support tasks in the New Guinea - Philippines Campaign . Postwar career . Johnson worked as an executive for the Gulf Oil company after the war while remaining in the Army Reserve . He served as Director of the Hoof and Mouth Commission in the Republic of Mexico from 1946 ? - 1951 ? . The joint Mexico - U . S . commission produced 5 , 500 , 000 doses of vaccine and vaccinated over 3 , 500 , 000 animals in August , 1949 . Johnson retired from the Army Reserve in 1958 . Harry H . Johnson died on 6 Aug 1987 in Kerrville , Texas . He was buried on 11 Aug 1987 in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery , San Antonio , Texas . Family . Johnson married Rose Mathilda " Mimi " Morisseau ( 11 Nov 1894 - 2 Feb 1977 ) in Fort Worth , Tarrant County , Texas on 5 Jun 1923 . They had four children :