(1806-78) Graduated from the University of Nashville, and was a law partner of James K. Polk, future President of the U.S.A., in Columbia, Tenn. Serving as a major general in the Mexican War, he was twice wounded in the Mexico City campaign. Upon the secession of Tennessee in 1861, Pillow was named senior major general of Tennessee's provisional army, and on July 7th, he was appointed brigadier general in the Provisional Army of the Confederacy. He was at the battle of Belmont, Mo., and during the battle of Fort Donelson, Tenn., he managed to escape before the surrender of the fort. Afterwards he was assigned to the conscript bureau in Tennessee and was commissary general of prisoners. In his post war career he went back to his law practice, this time in Memphis, and was a partner of former Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris.

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Bust view pose. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. Gen'l Pillow written in period ink on the front mount. Very fine.