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	TN Encyclopedia: PINCH DISTRICT
		Gideon J. Pillow, politician and general, was born in Williamson County and raised in Maury and Giles Counties.
		Pillow was a respected authority on farm economics and urged the diversification of southern agriculture and the increased mechanization of the southern economy.
		In 1846 Pillow was commissioned a brigadier general of U.S. volunteers (becoming major general in 1847) and commanded Tennessee troops in the war with Mexico.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=P029 (1291 words)

	Gideon Pillow
		Arguably the worst general on either side during the Civil War, Gid Pillow was a political appointee of James Polk during the Mexican-American War.
		Pillow had done work for Polk as a lawyer and they lived in the same area.
		Pillow turned down the wrong road, and advanced to the right flank of the Mexican Army, and attacked.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Gideon_Pillow (274 words)

	General Gideon Johnson Pillow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gideon Johnson Pillow was born in Williamson County, Tennessee, on June 8, 1806.
		General Pillow along with a number of officers and entourage crossed to the opposite side of the Cumberland and and escaped to Clarksville.
		General Pillow said that the loss of his property gave him "less anguish than the humiliation of bankruptcy." He attempted the cultivation of his farm in Maury county and of his plantation in Arkansas, but labored under many discouraging circumstances.
	www.pillowpa.org /general.htm (652 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for pillow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		fortification on the Mississippi River, N of Memphis, Tenn.; built by Confederate Gen. Gideon Pillow in 1862.
		Evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Island No. 10 to the north, the fort was occupied by Union troops on June 6, 1862.
		Pillow, Gideon Johnson The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=pillow (340 words)

	Gideon Johnson Pillow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pillow's antagonism for Scott was reflected in the 1852 election for president, when he opposed Scott's candidacy, supporting instead a former subordinate of his in the Mexican-American War, Franklin Pierce.
		Pillow resigned from the Army on December 28 in a dispute with Maj. Gen.
		Pillow assumed command of the 3rd Division of the Army of Central Kentucky, but was suspended from command by order of Jefferson Davis on April 16 for "grave errors in judgement in the military operations which resulted in the surrender of the army" (at Donelson).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon_Pillow (1205 words)

	Major General Gideon J. Pillow of the Confederate Army
		In 1827, Pillow graduated from the University of Nashville.
		Pillow later took part in the conventions that nominated Franklin Pierce for President, and ran unsuccessfully for Vice President in 1852 and 1856.
		Pillow and a portion of his staff crossed to the opposite side of the Cumberland River and made their way to Clarksville.
	www.mycivilwar.com /leaders/pillow_gideon.htm (519 words)

	General Pillow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gideon J. Pillow, born in Williamson County, Tenn., 8 June 1806, graduated from the University of Nashville in 1827.
		General Pillow fought at Bel-mont, Mo., in 1861 and was second in command at Fort Donelson in February 1862 when it fell to General Grant.
		General Pillow became part of the light draft squadron on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, and for the next several months convoyed troop transports and fought guerrillas on the riverbanks.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g3/general_pillow.htm (324 words)

	Lewis Green Sr. - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gideon was born on 30 Sep 1771 in,, Virginia.
		Gideon Johnson PILLOW was born on 8 Jun 1806 in, Williamson County, Tennessee.
		Cynthia Holland PILLOW was born in 1810 in,, Tennessee.
	users.ev1.net /~dhoskins/Web/lewisgree/pafg04.htm (1247 words)

	GIDEON JOHNSON PILLOW, CSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pillow helped get Polk nominated, and received an appointment as brigadier general of volunteers, and later major general, from Polk.
		Pillow later took part in the conventions that nominated Franklin Pierce for President, and ran unsuccessfully for Vice President in 1852 and 1856.
		Pillow died on October 8, 1878, in Helena, Arkansas.
	multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://Aviation/bio/CWcGENS/CSAPillow.html (220 words)

	pillows
		Fort Pillow was occupied throughout most of the War Between the States by Union or Confederate forces.
		Fort Pillow was one of several fortifications constructed on the river as a part of a river defense system.
		The house was donated to the Phillips Community College Foundation in 1992 by Josephine Thompson and her son George de Man. Five generations of Pillow descendants have lived in the house.
	www.interkonect.com /handmadewithcare/pillows.htm (810 words)

	GranneBlog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gideon Pillow launched an assault against the Union right (McClernand), demolished 5 brigades in the federal line, forcing them into full retreat and grabbed a road that led to Nashville.
		Pillow had a number of good choices he could have made: turn left or right to battle the exposed flanks of Grant’s army, or use the road he had captured to evacuate to Nashville.
		Pillow, generally regarded as the worst general on either side during the Civil War, decided to withdraw back into the fort because his men seemed exhausted.
	www.granneman.com /blog/index.php?tag=military&paged=2 (1385 words)

	Pillow Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
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	genforum.genealogy.com /pillow/all.html (4080 words)

	Gideon Johnson Pillow
		PILLOW, Gideon Johnson, soldier, born in Williamson county, Tennessee, 8 June, 1806; died in Lee county, Arkansas.
		He was graduated at the University of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1827, practised law at Columbia, Tennessee, was a delegate to the National Democratic convention in 1844, and aided largely in the nomination of his neighbor, James K. Polk, as the candidate for president.
		In the Nashville southern convention of 1850 General Pillow took conservative ground, and opposed extreme measures, tie received twenty-five votes for the nomination for the vice-presidency at the Democratic National convention in 1852.
	www.famousamericans.net /gideonjohnsonpillow (602 words)

	Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1878) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gideon Johnson Pillow was born in Williamson county, Tenn. June 8, 1806.
		General Pillow and a portion of his staff crossed to the opposite side of the Cumberland and made their way to Clarksville.
		He subsequently led a detachment of cavalry in the Southwest under Beauregard, and still later was made chief of conscripts in the Western department.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/pillow.html (618 words)

	The Life and Wars of Gideon J (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		They argue that “fame chose Gideon Pillow as her darling and laid opportunities at his feet like golden apples, but he kicked them aside” (xiv).
		Pillow went back to Tennessee to straighten out his business; then he participated in politics at the 1850 Tennessee convention and the 1852 democratic convention.
		Pillow’s questionable conduct during February 1862, when he fled Fort Donelson and left a subordinate to surrender it, lead to his dismissal from command while he awaited a formal investigation.
	personal.tcu.edu /~swoodworth/Hughes-LAWOGJP.htm (1501 words)

	Fort Pillow. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Fort Pillow, historic site, fortification on the Mississippi R., N of Memphis, Tenn.; built by Confederate Gen. Gideon Pillow in 1862.
		Evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Island No. 10 to the N, the fort was occupied by Union troops on June 6, 1862.
		Often called the Fort Pillow Massacre, it became one of the greatest atrocity stories of the Civil War.
	www.bartleby.com /69/64/F02464.html (122 words)

	MS 2138: The Gideon J. Pillow Letter, 1847
		Pillow, Gideon J. Major General, brigade and division commander in the Mexican War, defends himself against political attacks by Whigs in a letter dated August 7, 1847 from Pueblo, Mexico, to James W. Breedlove in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Pillow graduated from the University of Nashville, Tennessee in 1827 and embarked on a career in law, eventually joining James K. Polk in a Columbia, Tennessee, practice.
		Pillow was twice wounded and ended the war as a Major General.
	www.lib.utk.edu /spcoll/manuscripts/ms2138fa.html (272 words)

	List of All Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Commonly portrayed in Civil War literature as a bungling general who disgraced himself at Fort Donelson, Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-78) is one of the most controversial military figures of nineteenth-century America.
		Pillow was one of Tennessee's wealthiest planters, a law partner of James K. Polk, and an influential broker in national politics.
		He was unsuccessful, however, in bids for the vice presidency in 1852 and 1856 and in a run for the Senate.
	www.aviation-heritage.com /en-us/p_1618.html (425 words)

	Mid-Missouri Civil War Round Table: Polks Strategy for Missouri
		On July 28, 1861, Brigadier General Gideon Pillow arrived at New Madrid ahead of 6,000 men, grandly styled the "Army of Liberation," and was greeted with great enthusiasm by the local populace.
		Pillow’s and Hardee’s commands were separated by a vast swamp and overflow area that stretched from just south of Cape Girardeau through the rest of the Bootheel into Arkansas and that greatly hindered east-west travel.
		Undoubtedly the lack of cooperation between Pillow and Hardee was costly for the secessionist cause in Missouri.
	mmcwrt.missouri.org /2003/default0310.htm (4193 words)

	Generals of the Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Before the war, Pillow was a lawyer who graduated from the University of Nashville.
		In 1846 Pillow was appointed brigadier general and later major general of volunteers by friend and former law partner, James K. Polk (then President of the United States).
		He fought at Belmont, Missouri, and at the battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee, where Pillow passed command to a junior general (Simon B. Buckner) when it became evident that their surrender was imminent.
	www.alexandria.lib.va.us /lhsc_online_exhibits/generals/pillow.html (189 words)

	A Serpent Cherished by Ann Roscopf Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mary Eliza Pillow was the wife of General Gideon Pillow, a hero of the War Between the States.
		I was constantly amazed by the devious things Mary Eliza Pillow did in order to lay claim to all of Colonel King's property, and I marveled at the continued weakness of the Colonel in acceding to her requests.
		Pillow is stretched to the limit as she watches her friend and benefactor lie, cheat, and destroy a man who always treated her well.
	www.aserpentcherished.com /homepage.html (1724 words)

	Across Five Aprils: Chapter 4: Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Under him was the boastful Gideon Pillow, then regarded as Tennessee’s ablest general, but one who held a grudge against Buckner, who had criticized him in a Tennessee newspaper.
		Under the command of Pillow, the Confederates were at first successful against Grant’s right wing, driving it back two miles and opening the road to Nashville.
		In the end, however, it was Floyd and Pillow who elected to escape by the river, leaving the command to General Buckner.
	www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/fortdonelson4.html (596 words)

	gen_pill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		General Pillow fought at Belmont, Mo., in 1861 and was second in command at Fort Donelson in February 1862 when it fell to General Grant.
		Moore and served the South as a gunboat until she was captured on the Hatchee River, Tenn., by Pittsburg 9 June 1862.
		General Pillow became part of the light draft squadron on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, and for the next several months convoyed troop transports and fought guerrillas on the riverbanks.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/gunboats/gen_pill.htm (304 words)

	The U.S.-Mexican War . War (1846-1848) . The Storming of Chapultepec (General Pillow’s Attack) \| PBS
		The imposing structure - a complex including a large castle-style fort, a manicured park, landscaped grounds, outbuildings, and all surrounded by a high wall - commanded a rise that towered over the surrounding plain.
		American General Winfield Scott ordered his army to take that position, directing General Gideon Pillow and his 2,500-man regular division to spearhead the assault, starting from the Molino del Rey to the west of Chapultepec.
		Pillow’s men followed, capturing a redoubt below the castle, and then gained its walls, disarming several powder mines as they advanced, avoiding a potential disaster.
	www.pbs.org /kera/usmexicanwar/war/chapultepec_pillows_attack.html (254 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: FORT PILLOW
		Major General Gideon Pillow subsequently ordered the construction of a thirty-acre enclosure with numerous batteries below, in, and atop the bluff.
		When upriver defenses crumbled in early 1862, Brigadier General John Villepigue arrived with reinforcements and a ram fleet to prepare the fort for action.
		On April 13 a Confederate gunboat fleet retreated to Fort Pillow.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=F046 (534 words)

	All the latest news from the talk. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pillow Talk surprised themselves with a rip roaring thirty five minute set at what was a Battle of the Bands final of amazing quality.
		Pillow Talk bosses have been in discussions with music industry supremos over the creation of an exciting new band, to be managed by the 'Talk.
		Pillow Talk were in shock yesterday at a wave of bad feeling apparently arriving from a certain Mr Simon Brown, of Derwent College, York.
	www.pillowtalkweb.co.uk /news3.htm (3786 words)

	Harry Turtledove: Fort Pillow
		The fort, known as Fort Pillow for his builder, General Gideon Pillow, had originally been a Confederate stronghold until the Union overran it in 1862.
		Fort Pillow is the first straight historical fiction Harry Turtledove has written under his own name (he has published five novels under the pseudonym H.N. Turteltaub).
		Near the end of the novel, one of the characters notes "We aim to make is so that everyone in the whole country will remember Fort Pillow for as long as this nation lives." In the modern world, most people could not tell you what happened at Fort Pillow.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/fortpillow.html (486 words)

	USS General Pillow
		General Pillow (Gunboat No. 20) was originally Confederate steamer B. Moore (see D4NFS II, 502) and served the South as a gunboat until she was captured on the Hatchee River, Tenn., by Pittsburg 9 June 1862.
		She was transferred to the Union Navy by the War Department; and after outfitting and repairs at Cairo, Ill., General Pillow departed Cairo 23 August for duty with the Mississippi Squadron, Lt. LeRoy Fitch in command.
		She continued this duty until July 1865 when she was turned over to the Commandant of the Navy Station, Mound City, for disposal.
	www.multied.com /navy/CWNavy/GeneralPillow.html (308 words)

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