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Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general)

b. 1830-06-18 d. 1913-03-27

Texas farmer, physician, and soldier. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Allen Gano and Mary Catherine Conn. Married to Martha Jones Welch on March 15, 1853. Father of William. B. Gano, John T. Gano, Clarence W. Gano, Sam W. Gano, Kate M. Gano, Fannie Gano, and Maurice Gano. Attended Bacon College in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia. Graduated from Bethany College in 1849. Graduated from the medical college in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1851. Physician in Bourbon County in 1850. Physician for the Louisiana State Prison from 1856 to 1858. Farmer and physician in Dallas, Texas in 1860. Member of the Texas legislature from Tarrant County in 1860 and 1861. Colonel in the 7th Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.). Appointed brigadier general March 17, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 479.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, p. 389.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, p. 108B.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers, and Nonregimental Enlisted Men, RG 109, Microfilm Series M331, Roll 0101 (accessed via fold3.com).
Lindsey Apple, “Richard Montgomery Gano,” in Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State, Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 96-102.
Charles David Grear, Why Texans Fought in the Civil War (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2010), 92-93.
Memorial And Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892), 999-1001.
Texas, Death Certificates, 1890-1976, Texas State Library, Dallas County, March 27, 1913 (accessed via fold3.com).

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Gano, Richard Montgomery. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212431 (November 12, 2026).

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