Montgomery Little, CSA (July 18, 1825 – March 8, 1863) was an American slave trader and a Confederate Army cavalry officer who served in Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort Company.

At the time of the 1860 census, his occupation was listed as "slave yard," and his household consisted of his older brother, Chauncey Little, and three other men, who all worked as clerks.

[8] A biography of a survivor of American slavery, Allen Allensworth, described his experience at Poindexter & Little, where he was incarcerated in approximately 1855:[6] The next day, under a Negro driver, they were marched out of the slave mart here, double file to the steamboat landing at Memphis and placed on a packet for New Orleans.

There was Uncle Billy with a gigantic physical frame, who looked as if he drank ox blood at every meal, whose business it was to give the cat-o'-nine-tails when a man or woman was assigned to the 'horse.'

[14] The boat either tore a drum-head,[15] or blew her mud-receiver, and thus her steam boilers exploded, shortly after pulling back from the dock at Columbia, Arkansas, near Helena.

[14][16] The gravely injured Little brothers (and Eddins) were debarked into a hay boat and taken to Greenville, Mississippi, for treatment,[14] but the burn injuries from the scalding steam were fatal and they all died.

"[18] According to the company history, written in 2006, "Even before the Kentucky Campaign had cleared middle Tennessee of Yankees," Captain Little was sent to Bedford County to recruit a unit to serve with Forrest.

"[18] According to history of irregular and guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War, "Well into 1862, Forrest was still recruiting men, some of whom had been in independent partisan ranger companies in western Tennessee.

For example, Private James Hamner wrote that the unit he belonged to, 'Capt Little's Co of Partisan Rangers,' joined itself to Forrest in October 1862 without any direction or orders from the Confederate army.

Little, son of Montgomery Little's older brother William Little, "came from a wealthy family in Bedford County, Tennessee, whose home was some two miles from Shelbyville on the Lewisburg Turnpike.

Thomas had been too young to take part in the early days of the war, but when Forrest came into the area in September 1864 on his raid against the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, the youth ran away from home to join.

[17] The 1868 history, written during Forrest's lifetime, recorded, "Captain Little was an admirable officer, with superior martial aptitudes, including notable resolution and decision, which made him greatly trusted and his early death deeply regretted by his chief.