George Henry Thomas | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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George Henry Thomas


00:01:36 1 Early life and education
00:04:02 2 Antebellum military career
00:09:06 3 American Civil War
00:09:15 3.1 Remaining with the Union
00:10:59 3.2 Kentucky
00:12:00 3.3 Shiloh and Corinth
00:13:09 3.4 Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga
00:15:57 3.5 Atlanta and Franklin/Nashville
00:18:53 4 Later life and death
00:21:24 5 Legacy
00:25:35 6 In memoriam
00:27:19 7 See also



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George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870) was a United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater.
Thomas served in the Mexican–American War and later chose to remain with the U.S. Army for the Civil War as a Southern Unionist, despite his heritage as a Virginian (whose home state would join the Confederate States of America). He won one of the first Union victories in the war, at Mill Springs in Kentucky, and served in important subordinate commands at Perryville and Stones River. His stout defense at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 saved the Union Army from being completely routed, earning him his most famous nickname, "the Rock of Chickamauga." He followed soon after with a dramatic breakthrough on Missionary Ridge in the Battle of Chattanooga. In the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of 1864, he achieved one of the most decisive victories of the war, destroying the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood, his former student at West Point, at the Battle of Nashville.
Thomas had a successful record in the Civil War, but he failed to achieve the historical acclaim of some of his contemporaries, such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. He developed a reputation as a slow, deliberate general who shunned self-promotion and who turned down advancements in position when he did not think they were justified. After the war, he did not write memoirs to advance his legacy. He also had an uncomfortable personal relationship with Grant, which served him poorly as Grant advanced in rank and eventually to the Presidency.