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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes and Queries. did General George H. Thomas have any purpose of fighting on the side of Virginia, his native State, at the commencement of the late war? (search)
Notes and Queries. did General George H. Thomas have any purpose of fighting on the side of Virginia, his native State, at the commencement of the late war? This question has been revived by Chaplain Van Horne, in his recently published Life of General George H. Thomas, who devotes some ten pages to an attempt to show that General Thomas never for a moment wavered in his allegiance to the old flag, and was at all times patriotic and loyal, while Lee yielded to the pressure against positive convictions, and drifted into the leadership of the forces in arms against the general government. We propose at some future time to fully consider this question, but meantime we give the following statement, which explains itself: It is unpalatable to have again to refute the assertions of the injudicious friends of General George H. Thomas, that he never entertained the purpose of casting his lot with his own people when the other Virginians resigned from the Federal service on the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Horne, Thomas B. (search)
, with 200 men, to join Brush, and escort him and his treasures to headquarters. The major crossed the Detroit from Hull's forces in Canada, Aug. 4. On the morning of the Thomas B. Van Horne. 5th, while the detachment was moving cautiously, Van Horne was told by a Frenchman that several hundred Indians lay in ambush near Brownstown. Accustomed to alarmists, he did not believe the story, and pushed forward his men in two columns, when they were fired upon from both sides by Indians concealed in the thickets and woods. The attack was sudden, sharp, and deadly, and the troops were thrown into confusion. Apprehensive that he might be surrounded, Van Horne ordered a retreat. The Indians pursued, and a running fight was kept up for some distance, the Americans frequently turning upon the savage foe and giving them deadly volleys. The mail carried by the Americans was lost, and fell into the hands of the British at Fort Malden, by which most valuable information concerning the arm