Allen Thomas
Birthplace: Howard County, Maryland
Father: Captain Dr. Allen Thomas 1783 – 1855
(Buried: Saint Johns Cemetery of Howard Co., Ellicott City, Maryland)
Mother: Eliza Bradford Dall 1795 – 1840
(Buried: Saint John’s Cemetery of Howard Co., Ellicott City, Maryland)
Wife: Anne Octavie Bringier 1839 – 1917
(Buried: Ascension of our lord Catholic Church, Donaldsonville, LA.)
Children:
Allen G. Thomas 1858 –
John Ridgely Thomas 1870 –
Julian Bringier Thomas 1875 –
Dall Thomas 1875 – 1956
Education:
1850: Graduated from Princeton University
Occupation before War:
1850 – 1857: Attorney in Maryland
1857 – 1861: Planter in Louisiana
1857 – 1861: Colonel in Louisiana State Militia
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1862: Major of 29th Louisiana Infantry Regiment
1862 – 1864: Colonel of 29th Louisiana Infantry Regiment
1862: Served in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi
1863: Occupied Planters Hall during Vicksburg, Mississippi
1863: Captured during the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi
1863: Paroled by the Union Army at Vicksburg, Mississippi
Brought the report of Pemberton on fall of Vicksburg to Richmond
1864 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry
1864 – 1865: Brigade Commander in Trans – Mississippi Department
1865: Paroled on June 8th at Natchitoches, Louisiana
1865: Pardoned by the United States Government on July 19th
Occupation after War:
Professor of Agriculture for Louisiana State University
1872: Presidential Elector
1880: Presidential Elector
1882 – 1884: Member of Board of Supervisors for LSU
Coiner at United States Mint at New Orleans
1894 – 1897: United States Minister to Venezuela
Died: December 3, 1907
Place of Death: Waveland, Mississippi
Age at time of Death: 76 years old
Cause of Death: Not Known
Burial Place: Ascension of our lord Catholic Church, Donaldsonville, LA.
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