George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas (1816-1870) was an American general, born in Virginia. He was a man of fine character, lacking none of the sterner stuff of the soldier, but blended with modesty and gentleness. Universally popular in the army, which he joined in 1840 and continued in till his death, rising to be general of a division through gallantry in the Indian frontier wars and in the Civil War, in which, at the battle of Nashville (1864), he completely routed the Confederate forces. He had command of the military division of the Pacific at the time of his death.

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