Isaac H. Hilliard

Isaac H. Hilliard (1811–1868) was an American planter and cotton factor in the Antebellum South. He was an advocate of the Confederate States of America. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he moved his family slaves to Texas and later Louisiana. After the war, he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and liquidated his cotton-factoring business. His Arkansas plantation was inherited by his sons.

Early life Isaac H. Hilliard was born in 1811 in Halifax County, North Carolina. He grew up in North Carolina and Virginia. a relative of President James K. Polk and the owner of Rattle and Snap, a plantation in Columbia, Tennessee.

He graduated from the University of Nashville in 1832. where he spent much of his time. who married his cousin, Carolina Polk, in 1880. His younger son, Edwin S. Hilliard, purchased the plantation from his brother's widow in 1895.