Edward Lloyd Thomas
Edward Lloyd Thomas was a Confederate infantry general during the American Civil War from the state of Georgia. He was an uncle to famed American Old West lawman Heck Thomas who helped bring down the Doolin Dalton Gang.
Thomas was born in Clarke County, Georgia, to Edward Lloyd Thomas and Mary Hogue, the youngest of eleven children. He was a graduate of Oxford College of Emory University and served in the MexicanAmerican War from May 1847 until August 1848 as a second lieutenant in an independent company of Georgia mounted men. Before serving he farmed in Whitfield County, Georgia. Three of his brothers were Confederate officers Henry Philip a colonel in the 16th Regiment of Georgia was killed in battle at Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1863 Lovick Pierce Thomas, I captain and quartermaster of the 35th Georgia Infantry resigned in 1863 due to injury Wesley Wailes served as a major in Phillips Legion of Cavalry.
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