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Jan 12, 2024 · Major General George Henry Thomas was a prominent Union general who served primarily in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. George H. Thomas earned the nickname “Rock of Chickamauga” for leading a defensive stand at the Battle of Chickamauga (September 19–20, 1863).
Jul 14, 2017 · George Thomas was one of the Civil War’s greatest generals. But thanks to personal rivalries and an unfortunate nickname, you might never know. The capital had never seen such a splendid celebration.
George Henry Thomas, 15, piled into a carriage with his mother and sisters and racketed along dirt roads into the darkness. Before they had gone far, afraid the assassins...
Apr 11, 2024 · George H. Thomas (born July 31, 1816, Southampton county, Va., U.S.—died March 28, 1870, San Francisco) was a Union general in the American Civil War (1861–65), known as “the Rock of Chickamauga” after his unyielding defense in combat near that stream in northwestern Georgia in September 1863.
May 31, 2023 · A Southerner, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas was a racist enslaver before the Civil War. But he fought for the Union because he prioritized his oath to defend the Constitution over state interests.
May 29, 2018 · George Henry Thomas was born on July 31, 1816, in Southampton County, Virginia. Like many other Virginia plantation (large farming estate) owners, his parents, John and Mary Thomas, owned slaves. Black people were taken from Africa and brought to North America to serve as slaves for white people beginning in the 1600s.
George Thomas was always steady as a rock, phlegmatic, deliberate, measured, and sensible. His virtues and his vices were those of a stolid man. At West Point, the young Virginian was compared to another Virginian—George Washington, to whom he was alleged to bear a striking resemblance.
