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EDWARD LLOYD THOMAS born March 23, 1825 near Athens, Clarke Co, GA died March 8, 1898 Indian Territory, OK; buried Kiowa, OK Fought in the Mexican-American War before joining the Confederacy BRIGADIER GENERAL in the CONFEDERACY (CSA); appointed Lieutenant Colonel, 4th Battalion Georgia Infantry Oct 14, 1861; Elected Colonel of the 35th Regiment Georgia Infantry Oct 15, 1861; Brigadier General, PACS, Nov 1, 1862. As Brigadier General, Edward L Thomas was over the following brigades: 14th Georgia; 35th Georgia; 45th Georgia; 49th Georgia Participated in these Civil War battles: Beaver Dam Creek; Seven Days Campaign; Second Manassas;Antietam; Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Overland Campaign; Siege of Petersburg; Appomattox CampaignAfter the war he was a planter, then appointed by President Grover Cleveland as a Special Agent of the Land Bureau in Kansas, then an Indian Agent at the Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Territory, OK. He died in 1898 in South McAlester, Indian Territory, and is buried in Kiowa, OK.
