Listed here are the 3 Generals that was either born in Montgomery County or did live here at one time before the war. 

Brigadier-General William A. Quarles, when the Forty-second Tennessee was organized in 1861, was elected and commissioned its colonel. The regiment was placed in the army of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, and in February, 1862, was quartered at Clarksville, Tenn. On the 12th of February they received orders from Brigadier General Pillow to go to Fort Donelson. The order was immediately obeyed, and going on board a transport they arrived next morning under a heavy fire. The companies were formed on the transport and marched off in regular order. In passing through the village of Dover, three men were wounded, one mortally, by the Federal shells. Then, assigned to Colonel Heiman's brigade, the regiment was thrown into the trenches. This was the introduction of these gallant men to the stern realities of war. On the 13th, 14th, and 15th of February occurred the severest fighting at Donelson. Both superiors and subordinates bore testimony to the gallantry of Colonel Quarles in the trying ordeal of this first battle. "In this attack," says Gen. Bushrod Johnson, speaking of the first assaults of the enemy, "Captain Maney's company of artillery and Colonels Abernathy's and Quarles' regiments principally suffered and deserve more particular notice." During the three days' fighting the conduct of Colonel Quarles was such that Lieut. T. McGinnis, acting adjutant of the Forty-second Tennessee, said in a note to General Buckner: "Before closing my report, I will call your attention to the cool and gallant conduct of Colonel Quarles. He was always at the head of his regiment, and set a gallant example for his officers and men." After being exchanged, Colonel Quarles was put in command of the Forty-second, Forty-sixth, Forty-eighth, and Fifty-third Tennessee regiments, consolidated, and the Ninth Tennessee battalion, and assigned to Maxey's brigade, which with other troops was under command of Gen. Frank Gardner at Port Hudson. Maxey's brigade was transferred, at the beginning of the siege of Vicksburg, from Port Hudson to the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Jackson, Miss. On August 25, 1863, Colonel Quarles was promoted to brigadier-general, at that time being under the orders of Gen. Dabney H. Maury. Quarles' brigade was sent to Bragg in anticipation of the battle of Missionary Ridge, but did not reach him in time to share in that engagement. He was ordered back to Mississippi after it seemed certain that Bragg would not be attacked again at Dalton, but was returned to Georgia on the opening of the Atlanta campaign. During the long continued conflict from Dalton to Atlanta this brigade exhibited a steady bearing. At Pickett's mill, General Cleburne expressed to General Quarles and his brigade his thanks for timely assistance rendered: "Brigadier General Quarles was severely wounded at the head of his brigade, within a short distance of the enemy's inner line, and all of his staff officers with him on the field were killed; and so heavy were the losses in his command that when the battle ended its officer highest in rank was a captain." After the war, General Quarles made his home in Clarksville, Tenn., where he died December 28, 1893.

Source: Evans, Clement, ed. Confederate Military History, Vol. XII, Confederate Publishing Company, Atlanta, GA, 1899

Brigadier-General William McComb, a gallant Tennessee soldier, was a native of Pennsylvania. About 1856 he went to Montgomery county, Tenn., where he engaged in superintending the erection of a large flouring mill at Price's landing, on the Cumberland river. In that section of the State he was living at the beginning of the civil war. Since his sympathies were with the South, he enlisted as a private in one of the companies of the Fourteenth Tennessee regiment. He was promoted to lieutenant soon afterward, and made adjutant of the regiment by Col. W. A. Forbes. This regiment was part of the brigade of Gen. S. R. Anderson in the Cheat Mountain campaign in northwest Virginia, and next, with the rest of Loring's division, shared in the hardships of Stonewall Jackson's winter campaign to Bath, Hancock, and Romney. At the reorganization of the regiment at Yorktown, Va., in the winter of 1862, William McComb was elected major. As such he took part in the battle of Seven Pines, where the brigade commander, General Hatton, was killed. Gen. James Archer was now placed in command of this brigade. At the battle of Cedar Run Lieut. Col. George Harrell was mortally wounded and was succeeded by McComb. In the second battle of Manassas Colonel Forbes was killed, and now McComb became colonel of the Fourteenth Tennessee, September 2, 1862. At the battle of Chancellorsville, Colonel McComb was wounded, and did not recover in time to take part in the battle of Gettysburg. he was repeatedly wounded in battle, but always returned to duty as soon as he was able. On the death of General Archer, his and Gen. Bushrod Johnson's old brigades were consolidated, and Colonel McComb was placed in command of the consolidated brigades, receiving his commission as brigadier-general on the 20th of January, 1865. In the final battles around Petersburg, McComb and his men did their duty with their accustomed zeal and alacrity. This gallant brigade and its commander were faithful to the last, and when the end came returned to their homes with the consciousness of duty well performed.

Source: Evans, Clement, ed. Confederate Military History, Vol. XII, Confederate Publishing Company, Atlanta, GA, 1899

"Reuben R. Ross was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., April 17, 1830. Prior to his appointment to the West Point Military Academy, he studied under his father, Professor James Ross, of the Masonic College, at Clarksville. In 1853 he graduated from West Point, where he was the classmate of General Schofield, General Hood, and other distinguished military heros.

Soon after graduation he resigned his commission as Lieutenant in the regular United States Army, and taught a semi-military school near Clarksville until the outbreak of the war, when he entered Confederate service. He strongly advocated the early formation of corps armed with muskets, picks and shovels. This was considered visionary at the time, but before the war ended almost every well-equipped army had such a corps. He became captain of the Maury County (Tenn.) Artillery, which he led into the river batteries just as the battle of Fort Donelson was about to begin.

After the surrender of the Confederate Army at Fort Donelson, Captain Ross was sent, with other prisoners of war, to St. Louis, where General Schofield showed him much kindness, taking the gloves from his own hands and giving them to his old classmate and friend in misfortune. General Schofield also procured him parole, upon which he returned home. For some reason, Captain Ross was not exchanged as early as were the other prisoners. He took part afterwards in several bloody battles, and was severely wounded in the thigh. It was said of him that "he never knew when to retreat."

We learn from the records of the Confederate War Department, now in Washington, and from the "Roster of the Confederate Army" (p. 65) that he was commissioned a Brigadier General, and commanded a brigade in Bragg's army. He was again captured in the latter part of the war, and, while being carried north, jumped from the moving train near Cincinnati; and, although badly hurt, he escaped. Returning South, he met General H. B. Lyon, C. S. A., a former classmate at West Point, who persuaded him to go with his command upon a raid he was then making into Kentucky. During that raid General Ross was overpowered and mortally wounded in a hand-to-hand encounter, dying a few days later - Dec. 16, 1864- at Hopkinsville, Ky. His wife and father brought his remains to the family burying ground at Meriville, where he now rests beside his parents, sister, and five gallant soldiers of the Confederate States Army."

Confederate Veteran magazine, November, 1896