Gideon Johnson Pillow
Gideon Johnson Pillow ( June 8 , 1806 – October 8 , 1878 ) was an American lawyer , politician , speculator , slaveowner , United States Army major general of volunteers during the Mexican–American War and Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War . 
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