19 Facts About Allen Thomas

Allen Thomas was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War.

Allen Thomas was born in Howard County, Maryland, and became a lawyer but he moved to Louisiana in the later 1850s and became a planter and colonel in the Louisiana militia.

Allen Thomas moved to Mississippi in 1907 and died there in that year.

Allen Thomas was born December 14,1830, in Howard County, Maryland.

Allen Thomas graduated from Princeton University in 1850 and became a lawyer.

Allen Thomas was a brother-in-law of Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor.

Allen Thomas joined the 29th Louisiana Infantry as a major in July 1861.

Allen Thomas commanded a brigade in the Confederate Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana in December 1862 and January 1863.

Allen Thomas fought in the Vicksburg Campaign, notably at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.

Allen Thomas was captured in the fall of Vicksburg on July 4,1863, and was later exchanged.

Allen Thomas then served in reorganizing paroled and exchanged prisoners.

Allen Thomas was promoted to brigadier general on February 4,1864.

Allen Thomas was assigned to the department of his brother-in-law, Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, at Alexandria, Louisiana, where he commanded a brigade of five Louisiana regiments and a battalion.

Allen Thomas was paroled at Natchitoches, Louisiana, on June 8,1865, and pardoned on July 19,1865.

Allen Thomas was a Presidential elector in 1872 and 1880.

Allen Thomas was nominated to run for Congress in 1876 but declined.

Allen Thomas was US Minister to Venezuela from 1895 to 1897, succeeding Seneca Haselton.

Allen Thomas moved to Waveland, Mississippi, where he had bought a plantation, in 1907 and died there on December 3,1907.

Allen Thomas was buried at Ascension Catholic Church Cemetery, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, in the family vault of his wife.