- Marcus J. Wright, Confederate Brigadier General CSA, 154 th Senior Tennessee Regiment - Great Commanders Series, 1894, General (Winfield) Scott authored and inscribed by Confederate Civil War General Marcus Wright to the servent of U.S. commanding general Ulysses S. Grant. Wright's militia regiment was mustered into Confederate States Army service as the 154th Senior Tennessee Infantry. From Wikipedia: In 1861, Wright was ordered to establish a fortification at Randolph, Tennessee, on the Mississippi River. Fort Wright was Tennessee's first military training camp in the Civil War and is named after Marcus Joseph Wright. Later in the war Wright was the Confederate military governor of Columbus, Kentucky, from February 1862 until its evacuation, and with his regiment was present at the Battle of Belmont and the Battle of Shiloh, where he was wounded. He served on the staff of Major General Benjamin F. Cheatham during General Braxton Bragg's invasion of Kentucky where he fought at the Battle of Perryville. Wright was promoted to brigadier general on December 13, 1862, and fought in the Tullahoma Campaign, at the Battle of Chickamauga and the Battle of Missionary Ridge. In 1863-64 he was in charge of the district of Atlanta. After the evacuation of the city he commanded at Macon, Georgia. At the end of the war, he commanded the District of North Mississippi and West Tennessee. He was paroled May 19, 1865 at Grenada, Mississippi.