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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee General Thomas. (search)
fficer. Maj. Gen. Thomas, who has relieved him, on the other hand, served with distinction at Buena Vista, and other battlefields in Mexico; was accustomed to command, and has borne an important part in several battles of this war. Martus and Cromwell were both second in command in victorious armies whose commands were successful on no other occasions, in no other campaigns. At all events, Major General Thomas is the special object of Yankee laudation at present. He was born in Southampton county, Virginia, as Harper's so-called "Journal of Civilization" states, is one of the few Virginians who remained in the Federal service — not, however, as that speech would make appear, "because his honor would not suffer him to rebel against his country's flag." The truth is, Thomas was known in the United 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 Virg