William Hugh Young William Hugh Young ( January 1 , 1838 – November 28 , 1901 ) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War ( Civil War ) . He was a university student and received a military education before the Civil War . He was a lawyer and real estate operator in San Antonio , Texas after the Civil War . Young spent nine months at the end of the war as a prisoner of war . Early life . William H . Young was born January 1 , 1838 at Boonville , Missouri . His family moved to Red River County , Texas in 1841 and later to Grayson County , Texas . His father was Hugh Franklin Young ( 1808 – 1888 ) , who was born in Augusta County , Virginia . Hugh F . Young was a county judge in Grayson County , Texas before the war . He has been referred to as a Confederate general in some sources , including the " Official Records of the American Civil War , " but he was actually a brigadier general of the 15th Brigade of the Texas Militia in 1862 , not a general in the Confederate States Army . Young attended Washington College in Tennessee , McKenzie College in Texas and , between 1859 and 1861 , at the University of Virginia , where he studied tactics in the military academy after his graduation in June 1861 . Young married Frances M . Kemper of Port Republic , Virginia . They had one son , Dr . Hugh Hampton Young , who was born in San Antonio , Texas in 1870 . American Civil War service . On July 25 , 1861 , Young became aide - de - camp to Governor of Texas Edward Clark . Clark was lieutenant governor and became governor when Governor Sam Houston refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy and was deposed . Clark served as governor between March 18 , 1861 and November 7 , 1861 . In September 1861 , Young became a captain in the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment . As part of the Army of Mississippi at the Battle of Shiloh under Brigadier General James Patton Anderson and Major General Braxton Bragg , the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment , was decimated and routed by an Illinois artillery battery . Soon after the Battle of Shiloh , Young became colonel of the regiment in April 1862 and was in the defense of Corinth , Mississippi during the Siege of Corinth . He fought with his regiment at the Battle of Perryville . He was wounded in the right shoulder and had two horses shot from under him at the Battle of Stones River ( Murfreesboro ) , December 31 , 1862 . Young and his men were specially commended by Major General Benjamin F . Cheatham . Young was wounded in the right thigh at the Battle of Jackson , Mississippi , July 13 , 1863 , while fighting with General Joseph E . Johnston ' s forces in the Vicksburg Campaign . Soon thereafter , on September 20 , 1863 , he was wounded in the chest at the Battle of Chickamauga . On July 27 , 1864 , Young took command of his regiment ' s brigade in Major General Samuel Gibbs French ' s division of III Corps , Army of Tennessee , when its commander , Brigadier General Mathew Ector was seriously wounded . Young held this command until he was captured on October 5 , 1864 . He was wounded in the neck and jaw at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain , Georgia , June 1864 . Young was promoted to brigadier general ( temporary ) on August 15 , 1864 to succeed the disabled Brigadier General Ector . He was wounded , lost his left foot , had his horse shot from under him and was captured at the Battle of Allatoona , Georgia on October 5 , 1864 . He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war , four months at Union hospitals and five months at the prisoner of war camp at Johnson ' s Island , in Lake Erie near Sandusky , Ohio . Young finally was paroled on July 24 , 1865 . Aftermath . After the Civil War , William H . Young returned to Texas . He was a lawyer , real estate agent and editor of the San Antonio " Express " . William Hugh Young died on November 28 , 1901 at San Antonio , Texas . He is buried at the Confederate Cemetery , San Antonio .