Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1870 — Gen. George H. Thomas is Dead! [ARTICLE]

Gen. George H. Thomas is Dead!

Pap TLoinaa ia dead! Tlic hero «f Mill Springe, Chickamauga and Nashville, ia no more. The telegraph announces the sad tidings that Major General George Henry Thomas was stricken down with apoplexy in San Francisco, and died Sunday evening, March 27th. General Thomas was born in Southampton county, Virginia, July sl, 1816. At the age of 20 he eif* tered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, front which he graduated June 20, 1840. His first active military service was in 1841, against the Seminole Indians in Florida, as brevet Second Lieutenant in the Third Artillery. When the war with Mexico broke out he was ordered to report with his company to Geueral Taylor, and was rapidly promoted to the rank of brevet Major for distinguished conduct in that brilliant campaign. The breaking out of the rebellion found Major Thomas at Carlie!* Barracks, Pa., in command of the Second Cavalry. From May to July, 1661, he was in command of a brigade under Genera! Patterson, in Northern Virginia, with the commission of Colonel. On the 26th of August he took command of Lamp Dick Robinson, in Kentucky, ranking as Brigadier General. On the £6th of October he routed Zollicoffer at Wild Cat, and soon afterwards was attacked by that gallant rebel General at Mill Spring!. This battle w-aa the first decisive victory of the wur. The rebels fled in disorder and Zollicoffer was killed. Thomas was soon after appointed Major General of Volunteers, and his appointment was con- - firmed April 25th, 1862. From this time to to the close of the war General Thomas' career was prominent and without reverse—Stone River, Chieainauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Resacca, Dallas, Kenesaw, Peachtree Creek, Chattahoochee, and Nashville crowning him with fadeless military glory. His name goes down to posterity without blemish. Ilis military lame is not compromised by a single indiscretion nor tarnished by a cruel act. He was a gentleman in deportment and was universally beloved by his soldiery, Loth rank and file. History will accord to him R place in the front rank, among the ip eat minds brought to prominence by tho rebellion. Requiescat in pact.