- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Brigadier General Thomas, Oxford, Newton County, ca. 1867-1869?]
- Date of Original:
- 1867/1869
- Subject:
- Costume--Georgia--Oxford
Armed Forces--Georgia--Oxford
Portraits--Georgia--Oxford
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Newton County, Oxford, 33.619, -83.86741
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Oxford, late 1860s. Edward Lloyd Thomas (1825-1898). He graduated from Emory College in 1846 and later served in the war with Mexico. During the Civil War he led the 35th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry. By the end of the war he had attained the rank of brigadier general. President Grover Cleveland appointed him to a position with the Land Department and then later on with the Indian Bureau. Thomas died in what is now Oklahoma.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_new038
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:new038
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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