Henry W. Hilliard

Henry Washington Hilliard (August 4, 1808 – December 17, 1892) was a unionist U.S. Representative from Alabama and a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

It took part in the siege of Cumberland Gap, and spent the fall and winter in Kentucky and east Tennessee.

Hilliard resigned from the army December 1, 1862 to take care of personal affairs and because he had not been promoted to brigadier general.

[3] He died in Atlanta, Georgia, December 17, 1892 and was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.

[8] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Portrait of Henry Washington Hilliard, by Mathew Brady , c1851