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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee General Thomas. (search)
States army as a partisan of extreme Southern political ideas. As soon as Lincoln was elected, and the cotton States had seceded, no one was louder than he as to the inexorable duty of Virginia to cast her lot in a Southern Confederacy. But a little while before the secession of that State, Thomas being on his way home Northward, passing through Virginia, fell down a steep railroad embankment at Lynchburg and broke a leg. Thus crippled he was taken to Troy, N. Y, where he had married a Miss Keling, and where he was some time confined to his lodgings, surrounded and worked upon by a potent family influence. Meant me Virginia had seceded, R. E. Lee, his Colonel, had resigned, and he became in his stead a Colonel of the Federal service; events of vast moment had followed with a giant's stride; his honor succumbed to the temptations around him, and to the solicitations of his Northern connections. This once ultra Virginian accepted service against the State and section of his birth a