Thomas M . Logan Thomas Muldrup Logan ( November 3 , 1840 – August 11 , 1914 ) was an American soldier and businessman . He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War , and afterward was greatly involved in railroad development in the Southern United States . Early life and career . Thomas M . Logan was born in 1840 in Charleston , South Carolina . He was the son of William Logan , a local judge . Logan received his education at South Carolina College , located in Columbia . He graduated in 1860 , standing first in his class . Civil War service . When the American Civil War began in 1861 , Logan chose to follow his home state of South Carolina and the Confederate cause . He volunteered for the Washington Light Infantry , which participated in the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12 – 13 . Later that month he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Confederate Army , and in May he was promoted to first lieutenant and joined Wade Hampton ' s Legion . Logan was assigned to Company A of the unit , which had been formed in Charleston . Following the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run in July , Logan was promoted to the rank of captain . He fought during the Seven Days Battles in the spring of 1862 , and was wounded in a foot at the Battle of Gaines ' Mill on June 27 . Logan also fought during the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 28 – 30 . He was cited for " great bravery " during the Battle of Antietam on September 17 , and was promoted to major from that date . That December Logan was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel . Logan served in Brig . Gen . Micah Jenkins brigade in 1863 , taking part in the Suffolk Operations that spring . He then went with the rest of the First Corps units to the Western Theater . Logan fought during the Battle of Chickamauga in September , and then participated in the Knoxville Campaign that winter , missing the Battle of Chattanooga . On May 19 , 1864 , Logan was promoted to colonel . Logan was wounded for the second time during the Battle of Riddells ' Shop on June 13 , 1864 . He was appointed a temporary brigadier general on December 1 , but it was not confirmed by the Confederate Congress , and reverted to a colonel . However , during that short time Logan was the youngest general officer in the Confederate Army . In early 1865 Logan served with Hampton during the Carolinas Campaign , and was promoted to brigadier general on February 15 . He served in Petersburg as well as fighting in the Battle of Bentonville from March 19 – 21 . Logan surrendered along with the rest of Hampton ' s forces on April 9 , and was paroled on May 1 from Greensboro , North Carolina . Postbellum career . After the end of the war in 1865 , Logan returned home to his civilian life . That May he borrowed $ 5 US $ from a friend and married Kate Virginia Cox ( 1840 – 1915 ) , the daughter of James H . Cox , a judge from Chesterfield County , Virginia . The couple would have nine children , but were survived by only a son and three daughters . Logan began to study law and entered into the railroad industry . He was the " principal organizer " of what would become the Southern Railway , and was often associated in businesses with American industrialist / philanthropist John D . Rockefeller . Entering politics as well , Logan was part of the Virginia Democratic Executive Committee in 1879 and the Virginia " Gold Democrat " party in 1896 , serving both as their chairman . Logan died in 1914 at his apartment in New York City , New York , due to a " complication of diseases . " His body was buried in Hollywood Cemetery , located in Richmond , Virginia , following a funeral on August 12 .