1816
George Henry Thomas, American general (died 1870)
George Henry Thomas, American general (died 1870)
George Henry Thomas, American general (died 1870)
George Henry Thomas
American army general (1816–1870)
- Born
- 1816
George Henry Thomas was an American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater. Thomas served in the Mexican–American War, and despite being a Virginian whose home state would join the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, he was a Southern Unionist who chose to remain in the U.S. Army.