# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-hugh-young
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:31:43.346Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-hugh-young"
name: "William Hugh Young"
slug: "william-hugh-young"
description: "William Hugh Young was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was a university student and received a military education before the Civil War. He was a lawyer and real estate operator in San Antonio, Texas after the Civil War. Young spent nine months at the end of the war as a prisoner of war."
tagline: "Confederate States Army brigadier general (1838–1901)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Hugh_Young%2C_1838-1901%2C_head_and_shoulders_portrait%2C_facing_slightly_right._Colonel%2C_9th_Tex._Infantry_LCCN2005694774.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1838-01-01"
deathDate: "1901-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.19
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.670482666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hugh_Young"
    title: "William Hugh Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "ويليام هيو يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ويليام هيو يونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Young"
    title: "William H. Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hugh_Young"
    title: "William Hugh Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hugh_Young"
    title: "William Hugh Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8012635"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump