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Thomas Mystery Photo Exposed |
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LC B8184-4139
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This photo is captioned as
Gen. George Thomas and a group of officers at a council of war near
Ringgold, Georgia, May 5, 1864 in several books. It purports to show General Thomas
at a table during the Atlanta campaign. I never thought it was
Thomas, as Thomas did not have a receding hairline and a close look at the
uniform reveals the button pattern of a brigadier not a major general, but I
had no idea of who the officer was. There were many generals in the picture that served under
Thomas including Generals Jeff C. Davis, John Brannan, John H. King and
William D. Whipple. Eventually I found the correct caption (referencing General R. W. Johnson at the table)
in the book, Mapping the Civil War, featuring
rare maps from the Library of Congress by Christopher Nelson with
captions by Brian Pohanka, Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, CO ISBN
1-56373-001-4
Apparently this mistake was made by someone at the Library of Congress years ago and never questioned until the research by Mr. Pohanka. |
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