George Washington Gordon
Born: October 5, 1836
Birth Place: Pulaski, Tennessee
Father: Andrew Gordon 1802 – 1889
(Buried: Garden Cemetery, Hare, Texas)
Mother: Eliza Kerr Goff 1801 – 1872
(Buried: Garden Cemetery, Hare, Texas)
1st Wife: Ora Paine 1858 – 1876 (Married: 1876)
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee)
2nd Wife: Mary Harbor Hannah 1861 – 1928 (Married: 1899)
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee)
Education:
1859: Graduated from Western Military Institute
Occupation before War:
1859 – 1861: Civil Engineer in Nashville, Tennessee
Civil War Career:
1862 – 1864: Colonel of 11th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded & Captured in thigh during Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
1862 – 1863: Held as Prisoner of War by the Union Army
1863: Exchanged in the Prisoner of War Exchange on April 29, 1863
1864 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry
1864: Wounded and Captured during the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
1864: Prisoner of War held at Johnson's Island Union Army Prison
1864 – 1865: Prisoner of War held at Fort Warren, Massachusetts
1865: Released from Prison by the Union Army on July 24, 1865
Occupation after War:
1865 – 1883: Attorney in Memphis, Tennessee
1883 – 1885: Tennessee State Railroad Commissioner
1885 – 1889: Special U.S. Indian Agent in Arizona and Nevada
1889 – 1907: Superintendent of Memphis, Tennessee Schools
Early Member of the Ku Klux Klan
1907 – 1911: United States Representative from Tennessee
1910 – 1911: Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans
Died: August 9, 1911
Place of Death: Memphis, Tennessee
Cause of Death: Uremia & Nephritis
Age at time of Death: 74 years old
Buried on: August 12, 1911
Burial Place: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee
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